Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Part One: Encountering Asian Canada
7. 1. Asian Canadian Studies Now: Directions and Challenges 3
8. 2. Nationals, Citizens, and Others 29
9. 3. The Racial Subtext in Canada’s Immigration Discourse 49
10. 4. The Muslims Are Coming: The “Sharia Debate” in Canada 64
11. 5. Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn 86
12. 6. Cartographies of Violence: Creating Carceral Spaces and Expelling Japanese Canadians from the Nation 103
13. 7. Redress Express: Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian Art 129
14. 8. Between Homes: Displacement and Belonging for Second-Generation Filipino-Canadian Youths 145
15. Part Three: Intersectional Encounters
16. 9. The Paradox of Diversity: The Construction of a Multicultural Canada and “Women of Color” 169
17. 10. “A Woman Out of Control”: Deconstructing Sexism and Racism in the University 188
18. 11. Orientalizing “War Talk”: Representations of the Gendered Muslim Body Post 9-11 in The Montreal Gazette 202
19. Part Four: Comparative Encounters
20. 12. Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature 225
21. 13. Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers 243
22. 14. Residential Segregation of Visible Minority Groups in Toronto 260
23. Part Five: Transnational Encounters
24. 15. Sweet and Sour: Historical Presence and Diasporic Agency 279
25. 16. Altered States: Global Currents, the Spectral Nation, and the Production of “Asian Canadian” 299
26. 17. Whose Transnationalism? Canada, “Clash of Civilizations” Discourse and Arab and Muslim Canadians 316
27. Part Six: After Encounters
28. 18. Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada 341
29. 19. Asian Canada: Undone 352
30. 20. “Too Asian?”: On Racism, Paradox, and Ethno-nationalism 363
31. Contributors 383