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
An immensely important book. As the first in-depth analysis of Asian Canadian artistic and cultural life, Voices Rising will be referred to in years to come as a definitive work. It is not only full of interesting characters, but contains a succinct historical narrative that explains the genesis of the Asian Canadian social and creative movements, and shows how they have responded to the Canadian nation and a global world. -- Anthony Chan, author of Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong, 1905-1961 Voices Rising is an outstanding contribution to Asian Canadian cultural scholarship, combining illuminating historical analysis with extensive interviews across several generations. The interviews alone are a fascinating record of the cultural apprenticeship and personal life stories of important activists and artists. This book is essential reading for scholars, teachers, and students in the areas of Canadian literature, history, cultural studies, critical race theory, and Asian North American studies, and it is an excellent text for courses in the expanding field of Asian Canadian writing and culture." -- Glenn Deer, associate editor of Canadian Literature
Xiaoping Li is an independent researcher and professor in the Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Okanagan College, British Columbia.
This is an important and largely useful book. Its more trenchant perceptions should become embedded in the textbooks that still largely understate the overall significance of the long ordeal of the North American Japanese.-- (01/01/2012)
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