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Book SynopsisRoland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon's Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada.
Trade Review"Despite several systemic and political barriers that the editors rightly identify as obstacles to the field’s institutionalization, a rigorous body of scholarship on Asians in Canada has flourished in the past two decades, as evidenced by the rich collection of essays assembled here." -- Malissa Phung * Canadian Literature No. 235 *
"The great number of topics covered by the contributors and the disciplinary heterogeneity of the articles make this carefully edited volume an excellent textbook for a university course on the subject and, at the very least, a useful guide providing supplementary reading for researchers and teachers who wish to focus on one discipline only or on a more specified topic." -- Brigitte Johanna Glaser * Association of Canadian Studies in German Speaking Countries - ZKS 2020 ed. *
Table of ContentsIllustrations Tables Acknowledgements Ch 1 Gordon Pon, Roland Sintos Coloma, Laura Kwak, and Kenneth Huynh - Asian Canadian Studies Now: Directions and Challenges PART I: Encountering Asian Canada Ch 2 Sunera Thobani - Nationals, Citizens, and Others Ch 3 Peter S. Li - The Racial Subtext in Canada's Immigration Discourse Ch 4 Sherene Razack - The Muslims are Coming: The 'Sharia Debate' in Canada Ch 5 Richard Fung - Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn PART II: Ethnic Encounters Ch 6 Mona Oikawa - Cartographies of Violence: Creating Carceral Spaces and Expelling Japanese Canadians from the Nation Ch 7 Alice Ming Wai Jim - Redress Express: Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian Art Ch 8 Geraldine Pratt - Between Homes: Displacement and Belonging for Second-Generation Filipino-Canadian Youths PART III: Intersectional Encounters Ch 9 Himani Bannerji - The Paradox of Diversity: The Construction of a Multicultural Canada and 'Women of Color' Ch 10 Roxana Ng - 'A Woman Out of Control': Deconstructing Sexism and Racism in the University Ch 11 Yasmin Jiwani - Orientalizing War Talk: Representations of the Gendered Muslim Body Post 9-11 in The Montreal Gazette PART IV: Comparative Encounters Ch 12 Rita Wong - Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature Ch 13 Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan - Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers Ch 14 Eric Fong - Residential Segregation of Visible Minority Groups in Toronto PART V: Transnational Encounters Ch 15 Lily Cho - Sweet and Sour: Historical Presence and Diasporic Agency Ch 16 Roy Miki - Altered States: Global Currents, the Spectral Nation, and the Production of 'Asian Canadian' Ch 17 Sedef Arat-Koc - Whose Transnationalism?: Canada, 'Clash of Civilizations' Discourse, and Arab and Muslim Canadians Part VI: After Encounters Ch 18 Henry Yu - Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada Ch 19 Laura J. Kwak - Asian Canada: Undone Ch 20 Roland Sintos Coloma - 'Too Asian?': On Racism, Paradox, and Ethno-nationalism Contributors' Biographies
