Research Catalog

Title

Voices rising : Asian Canadian cultural activism / Xiaoping Li.

Author

Li, Xiaoping, 1954-

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.

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Details

Description

viii, 307 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Voices Rising examines Asian Canadian political and cultural activism in the late twentieth century around such issues as community building, identity making, racial equity, and social justice."

Subject

• Asians > Canada > Ethnic identity
• Asians > Canada > Social life and customs
• Asians > Canada > Politics and government
• Asians > Canada > Biography
• Asians > Canada > Interviews
• Social participation > Canada
• Artists > Canada > Interviews
• Asian Canadians > Interviews
• Asian Canadians > Ethnic identity
• Asian Canadians > Social life and customs
• Asian Canadians > Politics and government
• Asian Canadians > Biography
• Canadiens d'origine asiatique > Entretiens
• Canadiens d'origine asiatique > Identité ethnique
• Canadiens d'origine asiatique > Moeurs et coutumes
• Canadiens d'origine asiatique > Politique et gouvernement
• Canadiens d'origine asiatique > Biographies
• Participation sociale > Canada
• Artistes > Canada > Entretiens

Genre/Form

• Interview
• interviews.
• Biographies
• Interviews
• Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-297) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. culture question -- 2. Inventing Asian Canadian culture -- 3. Becoming "Asian Canadian" -- 4. "The site of memory" -- 5. "Differently together" -- 6. Redefining Asian Canadian women -- 7. Emergence -- 8. Cross the threshold -- 9. Moving ahead.

ISBN

• 9780774812214
• 0774812214

LCCN

^^2007390666

OCLC

• 77378888
• SCSB-11460716

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library