An anti-racism methodology: The Native Sons and Daughters and racism against Asians in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada Ian G. Baird Center for Ethnic Studies and Development (CESD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University Key Messages  It is important to develop methodologies to counter white supremacy and racism against Asians.  The Native Sons and Daughters of British Columbia were leading organizations engaged in Asian racism during the 20 th century.  The production of knowledge associated with better understanding past racism against Asians can be useful for countering a present-day increase in racism against Asians in British Columbia and beyond. Over the past number of years there has been increased interest in racism and anti-racism amongst geographers. This paper focuses on one type of anti-racism methodology that relates to critically interrogating my own white colonial settler ancestors and particularly the institutions and structures of which they were a part, and using those understandings to resist the contemporary increase in white supremacy and anti-Asian racism. It also seeks to demonstrate the links between anti-racism and decolonization. Particularly, I examine the Native Sons and Daughters of British Columbia, Canada, in the Nanaimo city area, where my great-grandparents from northern England and Scotland settled as working- class miners at the beginning of the 20 th century. I examine white working-class settler racism against Asians, especially as practiced against Chinese and Japanese immigrants. While I do not argue that this is the only or even the most important type of anti-racism methodology, this sort of research and associated production of knowledge can be useful in resisting present-day anti-Asian racism, even though I acknowledge that I am still embedded in colonial structures of racism and white privilege. Keywords: racism, anti-racism, decolonization, Asian, British Columbia Une m  ethodologie antiracisme : les filles et les fils natifs de la province et le racisme  al’endroit des Asiatiques  a Nanaimo, Colombie-Britannique, Canada Au cours des derni eres ann ees, on a constat e un int er^ et accru pour le racisme et l’antiracisme parmi les g eographes. Cet article met l’accent sur un type de m ethodologie antiracisme qui est reli ee  a mon questionne- ment critique sur mes propres anc^ etres colonisateurs blancs, et plus particuli erement, les institutions et les structures dont ils faisaient partie et l’utilisation de cette compr ehension pour r esister  a la hausse contemporaine de la supr ematie blanche et du racisme anti-asiatique. Je tente  egalement de d emontrer les liens entre l’antiracisme et la d ecolonisation. J’examine plus particuli erement les filles et les fils natifs de la Colombie-Britannique, au Canada, dans le secteur urbain de Nanaimo, o u mes arri eres-grands-parents venus du nord de l’Angleterre et d’Ecosse se sont install es comme mineurs de la classe ouvri ere au d ebut du vingti eme si ecle. J’examine le racisme des colons blancs de la classe ouvri ere  al’endroit des Asiatiques, plus particuli ere- ment des immigrants chinois et japonais. Bien que je ne soutienne pas que ce soit le seul type ou m^ eme le type Correspondence to / Adresse de correspondance: Ian Baird, Center for Ethnic Studies and Development (CESD), Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand 50200. Email/Courriel: ibaird@wisc.edu The Canadian Geographer / Le G eographe canadien 2018, 62(3): 300–313 DOI: 10.1111/cag.12406 © 2017 Canadian Association of Geographers / L'Association canadienne des g eographes The Canadian Geographer Le Géographe canadien The Canadian Geographer Le Géographe canadien