Voices Rising

Asian Canadian Cultural Activism

Bibliographic Data

ID23543798
AuthorsXiaoping Li (0000-0003-3529-390X)
Year2007
Publication date2007-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueVoices Rising (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of British Columbia Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.59962/9780774855761
OpenAlexW4385865322
Open LibraryOL44249073M
ISBN9780774855761
LanguageEN
Citations received5

In the late twentieth century, Western multicultural societies wrestled with questions of cultural difference, identity, and otherness. In Canada, activists from racialized communities took leading roles in the struggle over Canadian identity. Voices Rising 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, Voices Rising 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. As an interdisciplinary inquiry addressing topical issues of "race," ethnicity, identity, and transculturalism, Voices Rising will be welcomed by scholars, researchers, and students in Canadian studies, cultural studies, ethnic histories, postcolonial theory, globalization studies, diaspora theory, and transcultural analysis. The general reader interested in Canadian identity and cultural history will also find this book accessible and useful.

Political science · Canadian Identity and History · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Short Stories in Global Literature · Artists · Asians · biography · canada · Social participation

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