Project Activity
Lessons in racism at a Country Grocer
Lessons in racism at a Country Grocer Jordan Stanger-Ross Lessons in racism at a Country Grocer I think I may have learned something new about the history of racism the other day in a neighbourhood store. Sometime near the beginning of everything now happening, I...
Freedom or safety: Lessons from internment to COVID-19 Zoe-Blue Coates
Freedom or safety Lessons from internment to COVID-19 Freedom or Safety: Lessons from Japanese Canadian Internment to COVID-19 Zoë-Blue Coates We are in a global pandemic. With social distancing in place, COVID-19 has changed the day to day of all Canadians in a way...
“Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on Internment”
Landscapes of Injustice book 2020 Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians Edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross McGill-Queen’s Press 2020 Landscapes of Injustice, the book, emerges from a collective effort to...
“Landscapes of Injustice Launch event” Michael Abe
Landscapes of Injustice Launch Event Oct 2020 Landscapes of Injustice Museum Launch Event A culmination of a seven year research project on the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s By Michael Abe On Saturday, September 26, 2020, the Landscapes of Injustice...
“Broken Promises: The Landscapes of Injustice exhibit” Yasmin Amataranga Railton
Broken Promises Museum exhibit Broken Promises the Landscapes of Injustice Museum Exhibit Yasmin Amaratunga Railton, PhD Jack Lindsay. City of Vancouver Archives, 1184-1537 The Broken Promises museum exhibit is the capstone output of the Landscapes of Injustice...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #10 9609 Meeting My Ojiisan (Granddad)
Claim series 10 Laura Saimoto 9606 meeting my ojiisan 9609: meeting my ojii-san (granddad) Laura Saimoto When I first opened my grandfather’s case file (about 500 pages) from the Office of the Custodian, there was a handwritten number: 9609. What did this mean? ...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #9 Preserve’d in History
Claim series 9 Michael Abe Preserve-d In History Landscapes of Injustice Claim #1 Killing of Home Here is an entry in the series on the four claims that is food-related. The forced uprooting and dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s destroyed a...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #8 Without a Trace
In our continuing series on the Four Claims, this story follows the provenance of a small but important piano. Claim series 8 Michael Abe Without a Trace Claim #1 Killing of Home Without A Trace By Michael Abe With the invention of the incandescent light bulb in the...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #7 The Case of George Tamaki
Claim series 7 Kaitlin Findlay George Tamaki Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice. This essay explores claim # 3: Reasoning Wrong. In the 1940s, officials found ways to justify their actions. While racism was...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #6 Rebuilding of Community
Claim #4 Dispossession is Permanent. The internment era was far too long-seven years, most of them after WWII had ended. But dispossession lasts forever. The lands, possessions, and opportunities lost can never be fully restored. Here is a submission by Project...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #5 Examining the Sato Fonds
This article in our series on the four claims highlights Claim #2, Dispossession Required Sustained Work. It comes to us from Laura Saimoto from the Vancouver Japanese Language School, one of our partner institutions. Congratulations to the hard work to have their...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #4 The Story of Cinderella
Claim series 4 Kaitlin Findlay Eiko Henmi Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice, this one comes from Research Coordinator, Kaitlin Findlay Claim #2: Dispossession is hard work. In Canada, the dispossession...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim series #3
Claim series 3 Lorene Oikawa The Story of Oikawa Island Continuing with stories in our series about the four claims of the project, Lorene Oikawa relates her father's story and the community that they created on Oikawa and Sato Islands. Claim #1 is the killing of home...
Landscapes of Injustice Claim Series #2 The Case of Gordon Robertson
Claim series 2 Josh van Es Gordon Robertson Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims, this one comes from Josh van Es, an undergrad at UVic and a Landscapes of Injustice research assistant in the Narrative Website cluster. Claim #3 states...
Landscapes of Injustice Four Claims Series #1 My Aha Moment
Here is our series of articles based on the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice. Claim series 1 Jordan Stanger-Ross Vivian Rygnestad Look up! Landscapes of Injustice has a new logo. We decided to refresh our look this summer, just in time for our signature public...
The Lost Fleet Exhibit Launch Report: A Case Study
Photo credits: James Hollko By Mike Abe It was an honour to speak at the event launch of the Lost Fleet Exhibit at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia in January. The exhibit was on loan from the Vancouver Maritime Museum from Jan.-Mar., 2019. At the launch, I...
Midge Ayukawa Commemorative Lecture: Masumi Izumi and Jordan Stanger-Ross, Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Canadian dispossession book talk
Michiko (Midge) Ayukawa Commemorative Lecture New publications exploring the uprooting and dispossession of Japanese Canadians and the incarceration of Japanese Americans Thursday, October 22, 2020 5:00-6:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time Friday, October 23, 2020 9:00-10:00...
Congratulations Jordan Stanger-Ross 2020 Provost’s Award for Community Engaged Scholarship
Sherri Kajiwara, director and curator of Nikkei National Museum, and Stanger-Ross with some of approximately 300 letters now part of the Landscapes of Injustice project. Photo: Chorong Kim Jordan Stanger-Ross has made community-engaged scholarship the hallmark of his...
Landscapes of Injustice Summer 2019 Newsletter
To read the entire newsletter, click this link Landscapes of Injustice Summer 2019 Newsletter Message from the Project Director, Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Look up! Landscapes of Injustice has a new logo. We decided to refresh our look this summer, just in time for our...
Landscapes of Injustice Spring 2019 Newsletter
To read the newsletter, click this link Landscapes of Injustice Spring 2019 Newsletter Message from the Project Director, Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross A New Perspective on the Internment Era Four years of Landscapes of Injustice research culminated this April at the Spring...