Asian Canadian Studies Reader

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.

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

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

"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."

Malissa Phung:

"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."

Laura Madokoro, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University:

"This volume is absolutely critical given the current dearth of comprehensive literature on Asian Canadian studies and I highly recommend it. The Reader provides a cohesive and interdisciplinary introduction to many of the key issues and themes and will prove a solid building block for instruction and future research on Asian Canadian topics. I see it as a critical lynch pin in developing the Asian Canadian studies network as well as fostering serious engagement amongst undergraduate students with the history and issues that have shaped the Asian experience in Canada."

Martin F. Manalansan IV, Departments of Anthropology and Asian American Studies, University of Illinois:

"The Asian Canadian Studies Reader offers a creatively imagined and capaciously mapped set of essays that provide a panoramic and exhaustive survey of the issues and problems that this new field of Asian Canadian Studies encompasses. As an inaugural and field-setting collection, the Reader not only provides a roadmap but also a projective, aspirational tone by which to provoke, inspire and induce further research and intellectual forays. This is a one-of-a-kind, truly historic volume that initiates and inducts the study of Asian in Canada into new and exciting paths and frameworks."