{"product_id":"justice-in-our-time-the-japanese-canadian-redress-settlement-hardcover","title":"Justice in Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoy Miki\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCassandra Kobayashi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1942 to 1949, a group of innocent Canadians were uprooted from their homes and businesses on the west coast, dispossessed, and forced to disperse across Canada, merely on the basis of their Japanese ancestry. Some 4,000 were even exiled to wartorn Japan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese injustices remained unresolved for nearly forty years. Then in the 1970s, a handful of Japanese Canadians began a movement to seek redress for these wrongs, through a negotiated settlement with the Government of Canada. What began as the dream of a few became a national movement that captured the attention of the entire Canadian public by the mid-1980s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Redress Settlement signed on September 22, 1988 by the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) and the Prime Minister of Canada was hailed as a major victory for human rights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe substantial Redress Settlement negotiated by the National Association of Japanese Canadians offered: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIndividual compensation to Japanese Canadians directly affected by the injustices\u003cbr\u003eA community fund to assist in rebuilding the community that was destroyed\u003cbr\u003epPrdons for those wrongfully convicted under the War Measures Act\u003cbr\u003eThe offer of citizenship to those exiled and to their descendants\u003cbr\u003eThe establishment of a Canadian Race Relations Foundation to combat racism \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJustice in Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates Japanese Canadian redress. From the historic injustices, through the redress movement, to the final events leading up to the settlement day on September 22, 1988--the dramatic story of redress is told through a rich interweaving of commentary, photographs, quotations, and historic documents.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoy Miki\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoy Miki is a writer, poet, and critic who has taught and written about the work of bpNichol for many years. He was the editor of \u003ci\u003ePacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka\u003c\/i\u003e which won the 1997 Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. His major bibliographic study, \u003ci\u003eA Record of Writing: An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Gabriel Roy award from the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures as the best book on Canadian Literature for 1991. Miki is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eThis Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians\u003c\/i\u003e (1985); \u003ci\u003eTracing the Paths: Reading' Writing The Martyrology\u003c\/i\u003e (1988); co-editor with Cassandra Kobayashi of \u003ci\u003eJustice In Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMeanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCassandra Kobayashi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCassandra Kobayashi helped shape the grass-roots community movement in Vancouver to seek redress for the forced removal, internment, and abrogation of the rights of Canadians of Japanese ancestry. She served on the national Redress Committee that negotiated the historic 1988 settlement with the Government of Canada. The struggle for redress is documented in her book, \u003ci\u003eJustice in Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement\u003c\/i\u003e, co-authored with Roy Miki.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 11.35 x 9.37 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 19, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43045964972167,"sku":"9780889222922","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/IzGSF7ag_P9780889222922_c7ef17ba-0646-415a-a3fa-4285cd1786fe.jpg?v=1755159855","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/justice-in-our-time-the-japanese-canadian-redress-settlement-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}