Abstract
A CPCC sponsored lecture on the topic of "Race, Riots, and Empire: Local and Global Challenges to White Supremacy†will be hosted on Feb. 26, 2015 from 7-9pm in room HC1530 (SFU Vancouver). The event is sponsored by FCAT's Centre For Policy Studies on Culture and Communities, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, and Woodward’s Vancity Office for Community Engagement, Kwantlen University’s Social Justice Centre, the Nikkei National Museum, and the Asian Canadian Studies Society. Please see the attached PDF for further details.
Highlights
From the race riots in Vancouver in 1907, to Ferguson today, people of colour have challenged white supremacy in varied ways
Co-sponsored by Simon Fraser University’s FCAT’s Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, and Woodward’s Vancity Office for Community Engagement, Kwantlen University’s Social Justice Centre, the Nikkei National Museum, and the Asian Canadian Studies Society
War I and the global crisis of 1919, the lecture probes the unlikely and longforgotten stories of Asian Canadians and their local and global allies, the radicals and reformers who confronted the circuits of white supremacy that gave rise to the system of Anglo-American imperialism that continues to this day
Summary
From the race riots in Vancouver in 1907, to Ferguson today, people of colour have challenged white supremacy in varied ways. John Price explores local and global histories of social activism for insights into the intersections of race, gender, class and Indigeneity.
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