Unidentified Black US Navy Sailor

Unidentified Black US Navy Sailor

Black Canadian WW2 Soldiers

This is another photograph taken by Yucho Chow, centering around an unidentified Black sailor from the US Navy in 1944. Here there is again the attempt to humanize minority soldiers, individualizing them by capturing their faces to present to a world which may only view them as numbers. There are added dimensions with how this is another type of diasporic interrelation between Chinese and Black North Americans, with Yucho wanting to immortalize the image of this unidentified sailor, offering equal accommodations at a time when Black soldiers would commonly be legally refused entry into White business across the country on the grounds of their race.

Yucho Chow

The image can be found in the following entry:

Chow, Yucho. “Item : 2021-034.429 - Unidentified Black US Navy sailor - c. 1944.” City of Vancouver Archives, 2021. https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/mah-james.

City of Vancouver Archives

1944

Likely Public Domain

JPG file

English

Still Image