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Lädt ... White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouvervon Henry Tsang
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is an odd but worthwhile book. It is the text of a walking tour of Vancouver streets that tells the story of racist violence in the young city; it is also a well-researched and presented popular account of the social friction between 'white', indigenous, Chinese, Japanese and Sikh populations that lived in the area around the turn of the 20th century for reasons that included pursuit of natural resources, a gold rush, railway construction and varied money-making. The oddity of the book is that it seems to serve distinct readerships: it is an illuminating narrative illustrating uneasy multicultural co-existence but at the same time a meta-account of how that story has been written, constructed and presented, which presumably has a smaller pool of potential readers. A third section is a group of essays about related topics - historic racial unrest in Washington State, for example, and reflections on present-day aspects of racism - but written for a more intellectually engaged and diverse readership. The large number of archival photographs (some colourised) and brief fact-filled sketches are reliable touchstones for readers (or tour-takers) who likely had never heard of this past, and may well inspire some to delve further into their history (as well as musing about historiography more generally). The essays may encourage some readers to examine their own views and experiences. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment. White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city's Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities. Emblematic of a systemically racist era, White Riot reveals the social and political environment of the time, when racialized communities were targeted through legislated as well as physical acts of exclusion and violence. Based on 360 Riot Walk, a 360-degree video walking tour by artist and author Henry Tsang, White Riot offers an intersectional approach to this pivotal moment in the history of racialized communities and a cultural and social context for understanding for the current wave of anti-Asian sentiment. It features photographs of the riots colourized by Tsang as well as those of contemporary Vancouver where the riots took place. Essays by Tsang and others speak to the colonial times that preceded and followed the 1907 riots, as well as issues that Chinese and Japanese communities (and other racialized communities) in North America are facing today. White Riot poses the question: in the current ethos of anti-racism and decolonization, what does it take to reconcile our collective histories within the legacy of white supremacy? Includes essays by the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance, Paul Englesberg, Melody Ma, Angela May and Nicole Yakashiro, Jeffery R. Masuda, Aaron Franks, Audrey Kobayashi and Trevor Wideman, and Andy Yan, with a foreword by Patricia E. Roy. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)303.623097Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Processes Conflict and conflict resolution ; Violence Civil disorder Riots History, geographic treatment, biographyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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