Asian Canadian Studies Reader / / ed. by Roland Coloma, Gordon Pon.

• MitwirkendeR: Arat-Koҫ, Sedef,; Bakan, Abigail B.,; Bannerji, Himani,; Cho, Lily,; Fong, Eric,; Fung, Richard,; Huynh, Kenneth,; Jiwani, Yasmin,; Kwak, Laura J.,; Li, Peter S.,; Miki, Roy,; Ming Wai Jim, Alice,; Ng, Roxana,; Oikawa, Mona,; Pon, Gordon,; Razack, Sherene H.,; Sintos Coloma, Roland,; Stasiulis, Daiva K.,; Thobani, Sunera,; Wong, Rita,; Yu, Henry,
• HerausgeberIn: Coloma, Roland ,; Pon, Gordon ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Asian Canadian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 9 b&w illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Encountering Asian Canada -- 1. Asian Canadian Studies Now: Directions and Challenges -- 2. Nationals, Citizens, and Others -- 3. The Racial Subtext in Canada’s Immigration Discourse -- 4. The Muslims Are Coming: The “Sharia Debate” in Canada -- 5. Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn -- 6. Cartographies of Violence: Creating Carceral Spaces and Expelling Japanese Canadians from the Nation -- 7. Redress Express: Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian Art -- 8. Between Homes: Displacement and Belonging for Second-Generation Filipino-Canadian Youths -- Part Three: Intersectional Encounters -- 9. The Paradox of Diversity: The Construction of a Multicultural Canada and “Women of Color” -- 10. “A Woman Out of Control”: Deconstructing Sexism and Racism in the University -- 11. Orientalizing “War Talk”: Representations of the Gendered Muslim Body Post 9-11 in The Montreal Gazette -- Part Four: Comparative Encounters -- 12. Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature -- 13. Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers -- 14. Residential Segregation of Visible Minority Groups in Toronto -- Part Five: Transnational Encounters -- 15. Sweet and Sour: Historical Presence and Diasporic Agency -- 16. Altered States: Global Currents, the Spectral Nation, and the Production of “Asian Canadian” -- 17. Whose Transnationalism? Canada, “Clash of Civilizations” Discourse and Arab and Muslim Canadians -- Part Six: After Encounters -- 18. Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada -- 19. Asian Canada: Undone -- 20. “Too Asian?”: On Racism, Paradox, and Ethno-nationalism -- Contributors