White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver by Henry Tsang #Archivespets Heather Read (Royal Ontario Museum)

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White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver by Henry Tsang #Archivespets Heather Read (Royal Ontario Museum)Essays and photographs that document the anti Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti Asian sentiment. White Riot: The 1907 Anti Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city's Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities. Emblematic of a systemically racist era,