Yellow Peril - Rage

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  • Yellow Peril - Rage

  • Artist: Jay Hirabayashi
  • Artist: Yellow Peril
  • Year: 1988
  • Duration: 25:00
  • Country: Canada
  • RAGE is an edited video documentation od a performance. In this work Hirabayashi uses dance, music and historical photographs in a video format to portray the emotional response of third generation Japanese Canadians to internment. During WWII, Canada branded some 22,000 Canadians of Japanese origind as Ã’enemy aliens , confiscated their land, personal property and buisenesses and deported them to internment camps in the interior.

    Special Collection - Japanese Canadian
    Vancouver BC History

  • Accession #: 1880
  • Distribution Status: 
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