The uprooting and confinement of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians during the Second World War constituted the worst violations of citizenship rights in twentieth-century North America. Voices Raised in Protest examines the meaning and impact of these actions and how they diverged in Canada and the United States. Many North Americans opposed their governments' wartime policies toward their fellow citizens of Japanese extraction. In this timely book, Stephanie Bangarth studies the efforts and discourse of anti-internment advocates, and discusses the various cases they brought before the courts. Persons of Japanese ancestry were also active in their own defence. Their critiques of the removal and deportation policies were seminal examples of a growing general interest in civil rights, and would provide a foundation for rights activism in subsequent years. Voices Raised in Protest offers valuable perspective for today's debates over ethnic and racial profiling, treatment of "enemy combatants," and tensions between civil-liberty and security imperatives. It will be of interest to activists and general readers as well as to scholars and students in history, law, politics, and Asian Canadian/American studies.

Voices Raised in Protest: Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49

History

Bangarth, Stephanie

Americas

University of British Columbia Press

To anyone who has crossed the Canadian prairies, the title of this book, Vertical Man/Horizontal World, will strike a responsive chord -- man stands alone in seemingly limitless landscape "as empty as nightmare". The stark isolation of man against the prairie's landscape is "so obvious" the author says, "that except for passing comments [in two studies of Canadian prairie fiction] no one has made a sustained analysis of the use of the prairie in Canadian fiction, or argued at any length for what most immediately unifies the literature of the prairie region." Author Ricou argues that man is intimidated by the vastness which so surrounds him, and "he will almost certainly wish to meet the challenge of this land, to say 'Look, look!' in whatever way he can, by raising a crop or a monument, by interpreting his experience in paint or words." Ricou traces this recurrent theme in prairie fiction from writers such as Frederick Philip Grove and Wallce Stegner, Edward McCourt and W.O. Mitchell, to Margaret Laurence and Robert Kroetsch. In tracing the relationship of man and land from the earliest writers of prairie fiction to the most recent, Ricou shows how the calm and benign relationship of man and land as exemplified, for instance, in the fiction of Robert Stead and W.O. Mitchell has changed in recent novels to a more dramatic confrontation. "[The novelists] find in [the landscape] an ideal mirror for the dilemma (and often the strength) of existential man." Critic Henry Keisel once wrote: "To conquer a piece of the continent, to put one's imprint upon virgin land, to say 'Here I am, for that I came", is as much a way of proving one's existence, as is Descartes' "cogito, ergo sum." Vertical Man/Horizontal World is an affirmation of Kreisel's statement. Slowly and cumulatively Ricou traces the image of man leaving his mark on the empty, sometimes nightmarish land of the Canadian prairie. "How do we fit our time and our place?" is a question posed by all the writers Ricou examines. "The answer," he says, "at this point in the evolution of Canadian prairie fiction, delivered with conviction . . . is: abruptly and uneasily, but brazenly and delightedly." This book is a sustained and penetrating look at the interrelationship of man and landscape in Canadian prairie fiction.

A reference guide to English, American and Canadian literature;: An annotated checklist of bibliographical and other reference materials

Bell, Inglis Freeman

Reference

Japan's Foreign Policy

In 1960 the Japan-United States security treaty was rewritten amid controversy and rancor. In the years since, Japan has astonished the world with her comeback from the status of defeated nation to a major industrial nation. This book is a detailed study of Japan's foreign policy which guided the nation in its resurgence. Five years in the preparation, the book examines the three main pillars of Japanese foreign policy: national prosperity, national security and recognition of Japan as an international power. The author's detailed knowledge of Japanese domestic politics provides the essential background for an understanding of the nation's pursuit of its foreign objectives.

Japan's foreign policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Langdon, Frank

Social Sciences

Dramatists in Canada;: Selected essays, (Canadian literature series, 4)

New, William H.

Text: English, Japanese (translation)

Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain

Ueda, Akinari

       During the Hudson Bay Company's years, when trapping and trading were the only concerns of the few white occupants of British Columbia, land tenure was of little interest and few provisions were made for it. With the arrival of settlers, the officers of the colony were forced to act. Encouraging settlement, forestalling speculation, and securing revenue were the three aims of Colonial and early Provincial legislature. This book examines their success in the face of rapid exploitation of natural resources.  

Land, man, and the law: The disposal of crown lands in British Columbia, 1871-1913

Cail, Robert Edgar

These legends, translated by Chief Kenneth Harris, tell of the origin of the Native people who live in the region between the Skeena and Nass rivers of British Columbia. Other stories tell of occurrences particularly significant in the 'history' of the people -- the origins of the 'Killer Whale' and 'Thunderbird Twtjea-adku,' and the revenge of 'Medeek,' the great bear who rose from the lake to punish people for breaking 'the law.'

Visitors Who Never Left: The Origin of the People of Damelahamid (English and Tsimshian Edition)

Chief Kenneth B. Harris

Religion & Spirituality

History and myth: Arthur Lower and the making of Canadian nationalism

Lower, Arthur Reginald Marsden

Softcover museum collection catalogue. 8" X 10" 48 pages. Color and B/W photos.

Northwest coast Indian artifacts from the H.R. MacMillan collections in the Museum of Anthropology, the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

Of British Columbia's 234 million acres, 134 million, or 57 percent, are classified as forest land. Responsibility for managing thisresource lies largely with the provincial government. The government is not, however, in the business of logging ormanufacturing timber products to any significant extent. The overall objective for government is, therefore, to find the mosteconomically efficient and socially beneficial long-term means ofconveying the publicly owned resource to private ownership forprocessing. It is in relation to this objective that the issuesdiscussed here arise. The articles in this volume are grouped in three main sections. Thefirst details the fundamental and historical relationship betweengovernment and the timber resource. The second analyses appraisals andalternative sales structures. The third focuses on sustained yield andon the ecological and social-use issues connected with timberpolicy.

Timber Policy Issues in British Columbia

Science & Math

McKillop, William

Nature & Ecology

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