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Social Science Asian American Studies

Asian Canadian Studies Reader

edited by Roland Coloma & Gordon Pon

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
May 2017
Category
Asian American Studies, Gender Studies, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442630277
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $155.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442630284
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $70.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442630307
    Publish Date
    Jun 2017
    List Price
    $60.00

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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.

About the authors

Roland Sintos Coloma is a professor and chair in the Department of Teacher Education at Northern Kentucky University.

Roland Coloma's profile page

Gordon Pon is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Ryerson University.

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Awards

  • Winner, CSN-REC prize for the Best Edited Collection awarded by the Canadian Studies Network

Editorial Reviews

"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."

Association of Canadian Studies in German Speaking Countries - ZKS 2020 ed.

"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."

Canadian Literature No. 235