Asian Canadian Studies Reader

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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