Part One: Deliberate killing of home -- Property and its transformation for Issei during the Meiji and Taisho Periods -- "Equally applicable to Scotsmen": racism, equality and Habeas Corpus in the legal history of Japanese Canadians -- The wealth of my home: a story of a Japanese Canadian family -- "My land is worth a million dollars": How Japanese Canadians contested their dispossession in the 1940s.
Part Two: Dispossession required sustained work -- Unfaithful custodian: Glenn McPherson and the dispossession of Japanese Canadians -- "Our deep and sincere appreciation ... for your kindness to us": A Japanese Canadian family and the administrative state -- (De)valuation: the state mismanagement of Japanese Canadian personal property in the 1940s.
Part Three: Reasoning wrong -- Promises of law: the unlawful dispossession of Japanese Canadians -- Creating the Bird Commission: How the Canadian state addressed Japanese Canadians' calls for fair compensation.
Part Four: Dispossession is permanent -- The economic impacts of the dispossession -- Remembering acts of ownership -- The politics of honorific naming: Alan Webster Neill and anti-Asian racism in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada -- The road to redress: a presentation to the Landscapes of Injustice Spring Institute, 2018 -- Social accountability after political apologies.
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