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Chinese language translations and print copies will be available in the near future.<\/p>\n
CANADA-CHINA FOCUS, in partnership with the Stop Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Advocacy Group, is pleased to announce the release of a new learning resource,\u00a01923: Challenging Racisms Past and Present<\/i><\/b>.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n
Authored by Denise Fong, John Endo Greenaway, Fran Morrison, John Price, Carmen Rodriguez de France, Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, Timothy J. Stanley, this 60-page booklet tracks the upsurge and assertiveness among Indigenous, Black and and Asian Canadian communities as well as the nascent labour movement in the decade before the 1923\u00a0Chinese Exclusion Act<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Chronicling how a racist backlash arose in response to this militancy, 1923<\/i>\u00a0provides a blow-by-blow account of the struggle against this racist piece of legislation as well as other attacks that marked the beginning of two hard decades in Canada.\u201cAn Act Respecting Chinese Immigration\u201d came into effect on July 1, 1923, prohibiting the arrival of newcomers from China. It forced all people of Chinese heritage, including the Canadian-born, to register with the federal government, or be subject to deportation.Co-author Dr. Timothy J. Stanley recalls: \u201cAnnie Fong, my mother, was 8 years old when she had to register under the Exclusion Act. She was born and raised in Montreal where she lived to the age of 100 and kept the certificate with her for her entire life.\u201d (see Annie Fong\u2019s certificate, p. 46).Federal and provincial governments also introduced measures at the time that further restricted immigration from Japan, made attendance in residential schools compulsory, and dispatched the RCMP against the Six Nations of Grand River.Regarding this era,\u00a0 co-author Dr. Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra: \u201cThese were hard years, but communities remained sites of resistance, drawing on the experience of our ancestors.\u201dAs a history of the present, the authors of\u00a01923\u00a0<\/i>suggest a similar backlash may be in the works, propelled by white nationalism, conservative \u201canti-woke\u2019 campaigns, escalating environmental racism, and recurrent Sinophobia and Islamophobia.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nJune 15, 2023 LAUNCH OF NEW LEARNING RESOURCE:\u00a01923: Challenging Racisms Past and Present A free, printable pdf is available at\u00a0https:\/\/challengingracism.ca\/ Chinese language translations and print copies will be available in … Continue reading 1923<\/span>