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• Title:Witness to loss : race, culpability, and memory in the dispossession of Japanese Canadians / edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross and Pamela Sugiman.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Sugiman, Pamela H. (Pamela Haruchiyo), 1958- editor.
  Stanger-Ross, Jordan, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
  ©2017
  

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  • Call Number: FC106.J3 W57 2017
    
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• Canadian Subjects:Japanese Canadians--British Columbia--Biography.
  Japanese Canadians--British Columbia--History--20th century.
  Japanese Canadians--Forced relocation and internment, 1941-1949.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Kimura, Kishizo, 1899-1976.
  Racism--British Columbia--History--20th century.
  Eviction--British Columbia--History--20th century.
  British Columbia--Race relations--History--20th century.
  
• Description:lxiii, 252 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
  
• Series:McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 44.
  
• Summary:"When the federal government uprooted and interned Japanese Canadians en masse in 1942, Kishizo Kimura saw his life upended along with tens of thousands of others. But his story is also unique: as a member of two controversial committees that oversaw the forced sale of the property of Japanese Canadians in Vancouver during the Second World War, Kimura participated in the dispossession of his own community. In Witness to Loss, Kimura's previously unknown memoir--written in the last years of his life--is translated from Japanese to English and published for the first time. This remarkable document chronicles a history of racism in British Columbia, describes the activities of the committees on which Kimura served, and seeks to defend his actions. Diverse reflections of leading historians, sociologists, and a community activist and educator who lived through this history give context to the memoir, inviting readers to grapple with a rich and contentious past. More complex than just hero or villain, oppressor o.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes English translation of Kishizo Kimura's memoir.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-241) and index.
  Includes English translation of Kishizo Kimura's memoir.
  
• ISBN:9780773551206 (cloth)
  0773551204
  9780773551213 (paper)
  0773551212
  9780773551954
  0773551956
  9780773551961
  0773551964
  
• Contents:Figures
  Note on landscapes of injustice
  Preface
  Acknowledgments
  Introduction and reflections / Jordan Stanger-Ross
  Translator's note / Matsuki Masutani
  Editor's note / Jordan Stanger-Ross
  Memoir:
  Kishizo Kimura, translated by Matsuki Masutani and Jane Masutani
  Part 1: The Fishing Vessels Disposal Committee
  Part 2: Unusual and exceptional cases
  Part 3: Concluding the forced sale of fishing vessels
  Part 4: A message to younger Japanese Canadians
  Part 5: The forced sale of Vancouver property
  Part 6: Recollections
  Part 7: Property-owners in protest
  Commentaries:
  1. A difficult past: Kodomono tame ni - for the sake of the children / Masako Fukawa
  2. Kishizo Kimura and the articulations of a society structured in dominance / Timothy J. Stanley
  3. Resistance and accommodation to racism and discrimination / Vic Satzewich
  4. Citizen beings, being citizens: Reflections on Japanese-Canadian experiences in war and peace / Laura Madokoro
  Afterword / Pamela Sugiman
  Appendix:
  Key individuals and legal enactments / Will Archibald, Monique Ulysses, and Jordan Stanger-Ross
  Bibliography
  Contributors
  Index.