Description
Book SynopsisThis final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.
Trade ReviewPatricia E. Roy’s two previous books on Anglo-Canadian treatment of the Japanese and Chinese in British Columbia, […] have established her reputation as a leading authority on the subject. The present study extends her inquiry into the tumultuous years of the Pacific War and up to 1967. […] no one has marshalled as much evidence from the political arena and the media to capture the cacophony of the expressed views and to discern the evolving direction as Roy has in this book. Her research in public archives and newspaper collections yields a most comprehensive assemblage of the voices of government leaders and politicians, and also of local reactions not only across the country but also community by community across British Columbia. -- Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas at San Antonio * International History Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 A Civil Necessity: The Decision to Evacuate
2 Adverse Sentiments beyond the Coast
3 “Repatriation” to Japan and “Non-Repatriation” to British Columbia
4 The Effects of the War on the Chinese
5 Toward First-Class Citizenship for Japanese Canadians, 1945-4
6 Beyond Enfranchisement: Seeking Full Justice for Japanese Canadians
7 Ending Chinese Exclusion: Immigration Policy, 1950-67
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Index
