Asian Canadian Studies Reader

Roland Sintos Coloma is a professor and chair in the Department of Teacher Education at Northern Kentucky University.Gordon Pon is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Ryerson University.

"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.)

• IllustrationsTablesAcknowledgementsCh 1 Gordon Pon, Roland Sintos Coloma, Laura Kwak, and Kenneth Huynh – Asian Canadian Studies Now: Directions and ChallengesPART I: Encountering Asian CanadaCh 2 Sunera Thobani – Nationals, Citizens, and OthersCh 3 Peter S. Li – The Racial Subtext in Canada’s Immigration DiscourseCh 4 Sherene Razack – The Muslims are Coming: The ‘Sharia Debate’ in CanadaCh 5 Richard Fung – Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video PornPART II: Ethnic EncountersCh 6 Mona Oikawa – Cartographies of Violence: Creating Carceral Spaces and Expelling Japanese Canadians from the NationCh 7 Alice Ming Wai Jim – Redress Express: Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian ArtCh 8 Geraldine Pratt – Between Homes: Displacement and Belonging for Second-Generation Filipino-Canadian YouthsPART III: Intersectional EncountersCh 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 UniversityCh 11 Yasmin Jiwani – Orientalizing War Talk: Representations of the GenderedMuslim Body Post 9-11 in The Montreal GazettePART IV: Comparative EncountersCh 12 Rita Wong – Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in LiteratureCh 13 Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan – Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic WorkersCh 14 Eric Fong – Residential Segregation of Visible Minority Groups in TorontoPART V: Transnational EncountersCh 15 Lily Cho – Sweet and Sour: Historical Presence and Diasporic AgencyCh 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 CanadiansPart VI: After EncountersCh 18 Henry Yu – Global Migrants and the New Pacific CanadaCh 19 Laura J. Kwak – Asian Canada: UndoneCh 20 Roland Sintos Coloma – ‘Too Asian?’: On Racism, Paradox, and Ethno-nationalismContributors’ Biographies