Download or read book Asian Canadian Studies Reader written by Roland Sintos Coloma and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Copyright -- 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 -- Part Two: Ethnic Encounters -- 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