Hometown Asian America II
September 17, 2007
National Geographic’s Kid’s-Eye-View of S.F.’s Chinatown
This summer Pulitzer Prize-winning photog Jay Dickman set 15 San Francisco teenagers—all first-generation Chinese Americans—loose in Chinatown armed with Olympus digital cameras as part of the National Geographic-sponsored Summer Photo Camp. Here’s a San Francisco Chronicle article (via SFGate.com) on the camp, a QuickTime setup video and a slideshow of the shots the young shooters produced in their ‘hood.
1907 Vancouver Anti-Asiatic Riots: ‘When Racism Ruled’
September 17, 2007
- “Anniversaries of Change,” Canadian Union of Public Employees Web site.
- “Student Digs Up New Info on City’s Race Riots,” The Georgia Straight/straight.com.
- “Commemorating a Race Riot,” The Georgia Straight/straight.com.
- “1907 Riots Sparked Other Actions Against Immigrants,”
Bellingham Herald. - “When Racism Ruled,” Vancouver Sun.
- “Perspectives on The 1907 Riots,” Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC).
- “100-Year Anniversary of Anti-Asian Race Riots,” comments from stormfront.org, white supremacist Web site.
