Full Description
Roland 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. The Reader is the perfect textbook for undergraduate courses in Race and Ethnic Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and Migration and Diaspora Studies.
The volume is organized into four main themes: ethnic, intersectional, comparative, and transnational encounters. It critically engages topics regarding orientalism, settler colonialism, globalization, and nationalism. Each groundbreaking essay challenges our conventional understandings of diversity and multiculturalism by tackling the intricacies of racism and racialization. By capturing the rich diversity within Asian Canadian communities, Coloma and Pon dispel the perceptions of Asians as always immigrants, newcomers, or model minorities. The Asian Canadian Studies Reader is the first interdisciplinary collection of essays intended for undergraduate use about Canada's largest racialized minority group.
Contents
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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-Koç - 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
