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This interdisciplinary inquiry examines Asian Canadian political and cultural activism around community building, identity making, racial equity, and social justice. Informed by a postcolonial and postmodern cultural critique, it traces the trajectory of progressive cultural discourse generated by Asian Canadian cultural activists over the course of several generations. Xiaoping Li draws on historical sources and personal testimonies to convincingly demonstrate how culture acts as a means of engagement with the political and social world. He addresses topical issues of “race,” ethnicity, identity, and transculturalism.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: Mapping Asian Canadian Cultural Activism
1 The Culture Question
2 Inventing Asian Canadian Culture
3 Becoming "Asian Canadian"
4 The Site of Memory
5 Differently Together
6 Redefining Asian Canadian Women
Section II:
7 Emergence
Harry Aoki
Tamio Wakayama
Aiko Suzuki
Keith Lock
Terry Watada
David Kenji Fujino
Sean Gunn
Keeman Wong
Section III:
8 Cross the Threshold
Fumiko Kiyooka
William Lau
Brenda Joy Lem
Gu Xiong
Kyo Maclear
Mina Shum
Valerie Sing Turner
Section IV:
9 Moving Ahead
Alvin Erasga Tolentino
Wayne Yung
Kagan Goh
Norman Lup
Man Yeung
Jen Lam
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index