Full Description
Indigenous peoples and Japanese Canadians have demanded justice from the Canadian state for its discriminatory systems of colonialism and racial management. Critics have argued that state apologies co-opt those demands. Meanwhile, many Canadian institutions still attempt to control narratives about residential schools and other violence committed against Indigenous peoples, as well as the internment of Japanese Canadians. After Redress examines how struggles for justice continue long after truth and reconciliation commissions conclude and state redress is supposedly made. Contributors to this trenchant volume analyze the complex, often paradoxical redress process from the perspectives of the communities involved. In a context where mechanisms for reconciliation and redress have been defined by the settler state, this book reveals how Indigenous peoples and Japanese Canadians have responded to Western liberal notions of justice, whether by challenging or conforming to them or pursuing their own approaches.
Contents
Introduction: Japanese Canadian and Indigenous Writings on Justice "After Redress" / Kirsten Emiko McAllister and Mona Oikawa
1 Redress Settlements as Colonial Recognition / Bonita Lawrence
2 Web of Recognition: The National Association of Japanese Canadians and the 1989 Task Force on First Nations Peoples / Mona Oikawa
3 The Reconciliation That Never Was: Political Skulduggery on Indigenous Lands / Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian
4 Whither Redress? Interrogating Liberal Multicultural Accounts of Japanese Canadian History / R. Tod Duncan
5 Narrating the After of the Moment of Redress: Fred Kelly's "Confession of a Born Again Pagan" and Roy Miki's Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice / Smaro Kamboureli
6 The Political Act of Defining Ourselves After Redress: Japanese Canadian Activism, Identity, and What Can Be Learned from the Principles of Indigenous Storytelling / Kirsten Emiko McAllister
7 Post-Redress Japanese Canadian Scholar Activism / Audrey Kobayashi and Jeff Masuda
List of Contributors
Index
