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Author : Jordan Strom
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ISBN 13 : 9781320841320
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (413 download)
Download or read book In the Wake of the Komagata Maru: Transpacific Migration, Race and Contemporary Art written by Jordan Strom and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9781926573243
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (732 download)
Download or read book In the Wake of the Komagata Maru written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication brings together documentation from the art exhibition Ruptures in Arrival: Art in the Wake of the Komagata Maru [April 12 to June 15, 2014] and the symposium Disfiguring Identities: Art, Migration and Exile [May 10 and 11th, 2014]. These two related projects that both took place at the Surrey Art Gallery features mainly Canadian contemporary artists who are engaged in their respective art practices in the subject matter of migration, race, racism, particularly as it pertains to Asian Canadian identity and Canadian identity at large. Many of the artworks in the exhibition and projects discussed at the symposium responded to the history of the Komagata Maru incident in which 376 Indian migrants (primarily Sikhs) attempted to come to Canada in 1914 but were turned away by Canadian and British Columbia officials. Other participants in the exhibition and symposium made artwork responding to the histories of other migrant ships that had come to Canada from Asia in more recent decades: the ship MV Ocean Lady and MV Sun Sea that carried over 550 Sri Lankan Tamil passengers collectively in 2009 and 2010, and the four ships that carried 600 Chinese migrants to British Columbia's coast in 1999. Like the exhibition and symposium, the publication features reproductions of painting, drawing, photography, video art, short film, installation art, and music composition and incorporates many voices of participating artists and curators from across Canada."--
Author : Deanna Fong
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228021758
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound written by Deanna Fong and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print – and by extension, visuality – has historically dominated the literary, artistic, and academic spheres in Canada; however, scholars and artists have become increasingly attuned to the creative and scholarly opportunities offered by paying attention to sound. Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound turns to a particular opportunity, interrogating the ways that sonic practices act as forms of aesthetic and political dissent. Chapters explore, on the one hand, critical methods of engaging with sound – particularly bodies of literary and artistic work in their specific materiality as read, recited, performed, mediated, archived, and remixed objects; on the other hand, they also engage with creative practices that mobilize sound as a political aesthetic, taking on questions of identity, racialization, ability, mobility, and surveillance. Divided into nine pairings that bring together works originating in oral/aural forms with works originating in writing, the book explores the creative and critical output of leading sonic practitioners. It showcases diverse approaches to the equally complex formations of sound, resistance, and community, bridging the too-often separate worlds of the practical and the academic in generative, resonant dialogue. Combining the oral and the written, the creative and the critical, and the mediated and the live, Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound asks us to attune ourselves as listeners as well as readers.
Author : Elaine Chang
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1552451925
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Reel Asian written by Elaine Chang and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1997 by producer Anita Lee and journalist Andrew Sun, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspora. The festival fosters the exchange of cultural and artistic ideals between East and West, provides a public forum for homegrown Asian media artists and their work and fuels the growing appreciation for Asian cinema in Canada. In Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen, contributors, many of them filmmakers, examine East and Southeast Asian Canadian contributions to independent film and video. From artist-run centres, theories of hyphenation, distribution networks and gay and lesbian cinema to F-words, new media technologies and sweet n' sour controversies, Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen presents a multi-faceted picture of independent Asian film in Canada. The collection highlights the screen as a site for the reflection, projection and reimagination of identities and communities. Includes: David Eng, Ann Marie Fleming, Richard Fung, Monika Kin Gagnon, Colin Geddes, Kwoi Gin, Mike Hoolboom, Alice Ming Wai Jim, Cheuk Kwan, Julia Kwan, Anita Lee, Helen Lee, Karin Lee, Keith Lock, Pamila Matharu, Christine Miguel, Tan Hoang Nguyen, Midi Onodera, Mieko Ouchi, Alice Shih, Mina Shum, Mary Stephen, Ho Tam, Loretta Todd, Khanhthuan Tran, Phil Tsui, Paul Wong, Su-Anne Yeo, Iris Yudai and Wayne Yung.
Author : Vinh Nguyen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487508646
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Refugee States written by Vinh Nguyen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.
Author : Dirk Hoerder
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822350347
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Migrants and Migration in Modern North America written by Dirk Hoerder and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States over the past two centuries. Several essays discuss recent migrations from Central America as well. In the introduction, Dirk Hoerder provides a sweeping historical overview of North American societies in the Atlantic world. He also develops and advocates what he and Nora Faires call “transcultural societal studies,” an interdisciplinary approach to migration studies that combines migration research across disciplines and at the local, regional, national, and transnational levels. The contributors examine the movements of diverse populations across North America in relation to changing cultural, political, and economic patterns. They describe the ways that people have fashioned cross-border lives, as well as the effects of shifting labor markets in facilitating or hindering cross-border movement, the place of formal and informal politics in migration processes and migrants’ lives, and the creation and transformation of borderlands economies, societies, and cultures. This collection offers rich new perspectives on migration in North America and on the broader study of migration history. Contributors Jaime R. Aguila Rodolfo Casillas-R. Nora Faires Maria Cristina Garcia Delia Gonzáles de Reufels Brian Gratton Susan E. Gray James N. Gregory John Mason Hart Dirk Hoerder Dan Killoren Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu Catherine O’Donnell Kerry Preibisch Lara Putnam Bruno Ramirez Angelika Sauer Melanie Shell-Weiss Yukari Takai Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
Author : Phinder Dulai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889229136
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Dream/arteries written by Phinder Dulai and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems mine the archival record of Canada's anti-Asian immigration laws at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author : Gurmukh Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Global Indian written by Gurmukh Singh and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This glossy coffee-table book captures in vivid detail the rise of the Sikhs as a global community. The Sikhs started migrating to various corners of the globe from about the end of the 19th century. However, today they occupy a place of pride in their adopted lands owing to their sterling success in fields as diverse as politics, business, entertainment and administration. The lucid style of writing, combined with exhaustive research conducted across various parts of the world, makes this book an important tool in assessing the success of this enterprising and global community.
Author : Robert Diaz
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810136538
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Diasporic Intimacies written by Robert Diaz and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries is the first edited volume of its kind, featuring the works of leading scholars, artists, and activists who reflect on the contributions of queer Filipinos to Canadian culture and society. Addressing a wide range of issues beyond the academy, the authors present a rich and under-studied archive of personal reflections, in-depth interviews, creative works, and scholarly essays. Their trandsdisciplinary approach highlights the need for queer, transgressive, and utopian practices that render visible histories of migration, empire building, settler colonialism, and globalization. Timely, urgent, and fascinating, Diasporic Intimacies offers an accessible entry point for readers who seek to pursue critically engaged community work, arts education, curatorial practice, and socially inflected research on sexuality, gender, and race in this ever-changing world.
Author : Hugh Johnston
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774844728
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Voyage of the Komagata Maru written by Hugh Johnston and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1914, 400 Sikhs left for British Columbia by chartered ship, resolved to claim their right to equal treatment with white citizens of the British Empire and force entry into Canada. They were anchored off Vancouver for over two months, enduring extreme physical privation and harrassment by immigration officials, but defying federal deportation orders even when the Canadian government attempted to enforce them with a gunboat. The leaders of the group, who were thought to be closely associated with the nationalist, terrorist movement in India, were finally persuaded to return to India. They were by then full of revolutionary fervour against the Raj. On their disembarkation at Calcutta, troops opened fire while attempting to control the passengers, and a number of them were killed. The event, which had already raised a great deal of interest and concern among the governments of India and Canada, was now invested for Indian nationalists with a tragic significance which can be compared to that of Jallianwallah Bagh, while Gurdit Singh, the leader, was acclaimed as a heroic revolutionary figure by eminent Congressmen.
Author : Daniel Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536680
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s written by Daniel Gorman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the emergence of an international society in the 1920s, Daniel Gorman describes how the shock of the First World War gave rise to a broad array of overlapping initiatives in international cooperation. Though national rivalries continued to plague world politics, ordinary citizens and state officials found common causes in politics, religion, culture and sport with peers beyond their borders. The League of Nations, the turn to a less centralized British Empire, the beginning of an international ecumenical movement, international sporting events and audacious plans for the abolition of war all signaled internationalism's growth. State actors played an important role in these developments and were aided by international voluntary organizations, church groups and international networks of academics, athletes, women, pacifists and humanitarian activists. These international networks became the forerunners of international NGOs and global governance.
Author : Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439915733
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book The Subject(s) of Human Rights written by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights violations have always been part of Asian American studies. From Chinese immigration restrictions, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, yellow peril characterizations, and recent acts of deportation and Islamophobia, Asian Americans have consistently functioned as subordinated “subjects” of human rights violations. The Subject(s) of Human Rights brings together scholars from North America and Asia to recalibrate these human rights concerns from both sides of the Pacific. The essays in this collection provide a sharper understanding of how Asian/Americans have been subjected to human rights violations, how they act as subjects of history and agents of change, and how they produce knowledge around such subjects. The editors of and contributors to The Subject(s) of Human Rights examine refugee narratives, human trafficking, and citizenship issues in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. These themes further refract issues of American war-making, settler colonialism, military occupation, collateral damage, and displacement that relocate the imagined geographies of Asian America from the periphery to the center of human rights critique.
Author : Devyn Spence Benson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146962673X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Antiracism in Cuba written by Devyn Spence Benson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality. Drawing on Cuban and U.S. archival materials and face-to-face interviews, Benson examines 1960s government programs and campaigns against discrimination, showing how such programs frequently negated their efforts by reproducing racist images and idioms in revolutionary propaganda, cartoons, and school materials. Building on nineteenth-century discourses that imagined Cuba as a raceless space, revolutionary leaders embraced a narrow definition of blackness, often seeming to suggest that Afro-Cubans had to discard their blackness to join the revolution. This was and remains a false dichotomy for many Cubans of color, Benson demonstrates. While some Afro-Cubans agreed with the revolution's sentiments about racial transcendence--"not blacks, not whites, only Cubans--others found ways to use state rhetoric to demand additional reforms. Still others, finding a revolution that disavowed blackness unsettling and paternalistic, fought to insert black history and African culture into revolutionary nationalisms. Despite such efforts by Afro-Cubans and radical government-sponsored integration programs, racism has persisted throughout the revolution in subtle but lasting ways.
Author : Rajani Kanta Das
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111456919
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Hindustani workers on the Pacific coast written by Rajani Kanta Das and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Hindustani workers on the Pacific coast".
Author : Robert Garner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195443035
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Politics written by Robert Garner and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a href="http://www.oupcanada.com/ebrochure/garner/index.html"img src="/images/hed/closer_look_btn.gif"/aNow in a Canadian edition, this truly international introduction to politics offers comprehensive coverage of key concepts and ideologies, institutions, and international relations. Balancing theory with a wealth of Canadian and international real world examples, this text equips students with theknowledge required to think critically about the current state of global politics. Intellectually stimulating yet accessible, Introduction to Politics offers students a solid foundation to understanding politics and how it impacts every aspect of our lives.
Author : Suchetana Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Tulika Books
ISBN 13 : 9788193401583
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Voices of Komagata Maru written by Suchetana Chattopadhyay and published by Tulika Books. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early twentieth-century Calcutta was not just a point of passage within the British Empire, but a key center of colonial power; a crucial laboratory of imperial repressive practices cultivated and applied elsewhere. Histories of the Komagata Maru or the Ghadar Movement offer rewarding perspectives on Punjabi Sikh migrants, but fail to adequately investigate why the ship was brought to Bengal; why overwhelming locally organized imperial vigilance was imposed on ships that arrived soon afterward; and the extent to which the operation of the repressive colonial state apparatus influenced the intersections of anticolonial strands in Calcutta and its surroundings during 1914-15. This monograph traces this early wartime clash of positions and the organized postwar transmission of the memory of the Komagata Maru as a symbol of resistance among the Sikh workers in the industrial centers of southwest Bengal. It acts as a link in a chain of scholarship that has hitherto traced the spread of radical anticolonial currents among the Punjabi Sikh diaspora that connected Punjab with Southeast Asia, East Asia, and the Americas.
Author : Karen Dubinsky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442666501
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Within and Without the Nation written by Karen Dubinsky and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some ways, Canadian history has always been international, comparative, and wide-ranging. However, in recent years the importance of the ties between Canadian and transnational history have become increasingly clear. Within and Without the Nation brings scholars from a range of disciplines together to examine Canada’s past in new ways through the lens of transnational scholarship. Moving beyond well-known comparisons with Britain and the United States, the fifteen essays in this collection connect Canada with Latin America, the Caribbean, and the wider Pacific world, as well as with other parts of the British Empire. Examining themes such as the dispossession of indigenous peoples, the influence of nationalism and national identity, and the impact of global migration, Within and Without the Nation is a text which will help readers rethink what constitutes Canadian history.
