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Click below to watch Joy Russell talk about Vancouver's 'Brown Skin Beach' on CBC Vancouver.

Taken from ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Graduate Studies website:

"My research examines the segregation practices and policies at Crystal Pool, Vancouver’s first semi-public, then public swimming pool, between 1929-1945, and also explores the significance of a Vancouver site locally known as ‘Brown Skin Beach.’ Archive-based, my research also explores how racialized people responded to and negotiated their exclusion from public swimming pools, focusing on the relationship between the sites of Crystal Pool and ‘Brown Skin Beach.’ I see this work as offering new research into the underexplored history of racism and segregation policies in recreational spaces in Vancouver and Canada and extending a wide body of literature examining recreational segregation in the USA."

To read more about Joy and her work you can go here.