Remembering 'The English' in four 'memory moment' portraits: navigating anti-Japanese discrimination and postcolonial ambiguity in mid-twentieth century Alberta, Canada.
This article explores anti-Japanese racial discrimination in the mid-twentieth century as it was experienced in everyday life from the 1940s to the 1960s. Drawing on oral-history interviews with nisei ('second generation') individuals, it presents four 'memory moment' portraits to consider the trans...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 29 - 56 |
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