Voices Raised in Protest: Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry

Citizen Activism, Refugees, and the State: Two Case-Studies in Canadian Immigration History, in Catherine Briggs, ed., Canada Since 1945

“Human Rights and Citizen Activism in Canada, 1940s – 1970s,” in Stephen Heathorn and David Goutor, eds., Taking Liberties: Historicizing 20th Century Human Rights in the English Speaking World

“The Second World War and Canada’s Early Human Rights Movement: The Asian Canadian Experience,” in Janet Miron, ed., A History of Human Rights in Canada: Essential Issues.

Transnational Christian Charity: The Canadian Council of Churches, World Council of Churches, and the Hungarian Refugee Crisis, 1956-1957. With Andrew Thompson.

Nikkei Loyalty and Resistance in Canada and the United States.

The long, wet summer of 1942: the Ontario Farm Service Force, small-town Ontario and the Nisei.

‘We are not asking you to open wide the gates for Chinese immigration’: the Committee for the Repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act and early human rights activism in Canada.

Merchants of Death: Canada's History of Questionable Exports

"If ye break faith - we shall not sleep?"

"Canada's Complicated History of Refugee Reception"

“’Vocal but not particularly strong’? Air Canada’s Ill-fated Vacation Package to Rhodesia and South Africa and the Anti-apartheid Movement in Canada.”

Bringing China In: the New Democratic Party, China, and Multilateralism.

The uprooting and confinement of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians during the Second World War constituted the worst violations of citizenship rights in twentieth-century North America. Voices Raised in Protest examines the meaning and impact of these actions and how they diverged in Canada and the United States. Many North Americans opposed their governments' wartime policies toward their fellow citizens of Japanese extraction. In this timely book, Stephanie Bangarth studies the efforts and discourse of anti-internment advocates, and discusses the various cases they brought before the courts. Persons of Japanese ancestry were also active in their own defence. Their critiques of the removal and deportation policies were seminal examples of a growing general interest in civil rights, and would provide a foundation for rights activism in subsequent years. Voices Raised in Protest offers valuable perspective for today's debates over ethnic and racial profiling, treatment of "enemy combatants," and tensions between civil-liberty and security imperatives. It will be of interest to activists and general readers as well as to scholars and students in history, law, politics, and Asian Canadian/American studies.

Voices Raised in Protest: Defending North American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry, 1942-49

Dr. Stephanie Bangarth is an Associate Professor in History at King’s University College, at the University of Western Ontario. As a graduate of King’s, she is delighted to be teaching at an institution that had an important impact on her academic career.  She went on to complete her PhD at the University of Waterloo in 2004.  She taught at the University of Guelph for two years before coming to King’s in 2006.  Dr. Bangarth is also an Adjunct Teaching Professor in the Department of History at Western and is also a Faculty Research Associate with the Collaborative Graduate Program in Migration and Ethnic Studies (MER) at Western.  She also serves as a Contributing Editor to activehistory.ca,  a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events.

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