HREQ 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: War Measures Act, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, David Suzuki

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1700
• Professor: nadiahabib

Document Summary

Today the focus is on particular aspects of the history of the japanese- Japanese canadians, like all other communities, are heterogeneous in their histories, and their past and current social positions. The readings for today validate experience and challenge objectivity and the dominant ideology. The newspapers and the government of canada put forward ideas and policies about japanese-canadians that challenge ideas of impartiality and justice. They advanced a moral panic and a racialization of. Canadian citizens of japanese origin or ancestry to justify policies that stripped japanese-canadians of their rights, freedoms, communities, property and citizenship. These ideas also shaped other citizens views of. The category of experience is complex and by no means transparent, but it is a category, which has been used to challenge dominant ideas, perspectives and practices. Migrants from japan came and settled in canada as early as the 1870s. They were initially involved in fisheries, farming and landscaping/gardening establishments.