Chinese Checkers Set
Date1940-1949
DimensionsOverall: 56 x 60 x 3 cm
Credit LineCollection of Museum London, 2006
Object number2006.022.001
Label TextSomerville manufactured this Chinese checkers game in the 1930s. It is evidence of the longstanding anti-Chinese and anti-Asian racism that pervaded Canadian society in the 19th and 20th centuries. It also illustrates how children internalize racist thinking. Language and imagery in toys express ideology and culture. Toys like the Giant Chink teach children to see difference and belittle those who are different from them. This reinforces the oppression of non-white peoples.
NameSet, Chinese Checkers
After 1946
1941-1944
c. 1910
