By collaborating and engaging scholars, students, and community partners to build interdisciplinary research teams, our focus is to better understand the changing demographics of Asian Canadian communities, while highlighting the different impacts anti-Asian racism has on these communities.

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Reclaiming History: A new Asian-Indigenous exhibit explores the right to truth-telling

 
Asian-Indigenous encounters have played and continue to play a significant role in the history and existence of the Pacific Northwest coast and of British Columbia. Elder Margaretta James' story is one example of how these encounters have shaped the lives of individuals, families, and communities.

Two decades on from a founding gift, donors continue to center the voices of Asian Canadian communities

 
UBC’s new Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement had its origins twenty years ago—and its founding demonstrates the continuing potential that philanthropy has to shape a thriving society.

The white elephant in the room: anti-Asian racism in Canada

 
In an op-ed, Historian Dr. Henry Yu reflects on the surge in anti-Asian assaults over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses how history can help us analyze what is happening at present.
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