Developing an Anti-Racism Methodology: Considering Japanese and White Canadian Fishing Family Relations in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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Abstract
Nanaimo, British Columbia, on the east coast of Canada's Vancouver Island, was one of the places where Japanese Canadians settled during the twentieth century. In 2018, I published an article in the <i>Canadian Geographer</i> titled, "An anti-racism methodology: The Native Sons and Daughters and racism against Asians in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada", with the goal of using my family's involvement in organizations associated with racism against Asian Canadians to modestly contribute to developing an anti-racism methodology. More recently, I have reconnected with other relatives (small-scale fishermen) who developed close relationships with Japanese Canadian fishing families, both before and after the 1940s. This article considers one Japanese Canadian family in Nanaimo before World War II, during "internment", and after the war in Japan and then in Canada upon their return to their "homeland" in the 1950s and 1960s. I am particularly interested in everyday acts of friendship, particularly during tense periods, as it is important to not only reveal past injustices, but also to recognize and better understand cases when white people treated Japanese Canadians with respect, and also advocated for them when such actions were not fashionable. This sort of non-racist behaviour can constitute part of an anti-Asian racism methodology. This article also has implications for thinking about present-day immigration and deportation politics. Résumé: Nanaimo, en Colombie-Britannique, sur la côte est de l'île de Vancouver au Canada, a été l'un des endroits où les Canadiens d'origine japonaise se sont établis au XXe siècle. En 2018, j'ai publié un article dans <i>Canadian Geographer</i> intitulé « Une méthodologie antiraciste : Les fils et filles autochtones et le racisme contre les Asiatiques à Nanaimo, en Colombie-Britannique, au Canada », dans le but de faire participer ma famille à des organisations associées au racisme contre les Canadiens d'origine asiatique ; à contribuer modestement à l'élaboration d'une méthodologie antiraciste. Plus récemment, j'ai renoué contact avec d'autres membres de la famille (pêcheurs artisanaux) qui ont établi des relations étroites avec des familles de pêcheurs canadiens japonais, avant et après les années 1940. Cet article porte sur une famille canado-japonaise établie à Nanaimo avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, pendant son « internement », après la guerre au Japon, puis au Canada lors de son retour dans leur « terre-patrie » dans les années 1950 et 1960. Je m'intéresse particulièrement aux marques d'amitié quotidiennes, en particulier pendant les périodes de tension, car il est important non seulement de révéler les injustices passées, mais aussi de reconnaître et de mieux comprendre les cas dans lesquels des Blancs traitaient les Canadiens d'origine japonaise avec respect, et défendaient aussi leurs causes quand les actions n'étaient pas d'actualité. Ce type de comportement non raciste peut faire partie d'une méthodologie raciste antiasiatique. Cet article implique également une réflexion sur les politiques actuelles en matière d'immigration et de déportation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".