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Social Science Discrimination & Race Relations

Too Asian?

Racism and Post-Secondary Education

edited by R.J. Gilmour, Davina Bhandar, Jeet Heer & Michael C.K. Ma

Publisher
Between the Lines
Initial publish date
May 2012
Category
Discrimination & Race Relations

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    ISBN
    9781771130028
    Publish Date
    May 2012
    List Price
    $21.56

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The now notorious Maclean’s article “’Too Asian?’” from the magazine’s 2010 campus issue has sparked a national furor about race in Canadian higher education. Since the founding of the federal policy of multiculturalism, Canadians have prided themselves on their ability to integrate diversity into a broader multicultural environment, but the often heated discussions about race point to fissures in this national project. This collection uses the controversy about the Maclean’s article as a flashpoint to interrogate issues about race and representation on Canadian campuses and what it means for students and learning across the country.

About the authors

 

RJ Gilmour holds a PhD in History from York University.

 

R.J. Gilmour's profile page

 

Davina Bhandar is a professor of Canadian Studies at Trent University.

 

Davina Bhandar's profile page

“Jeet Heer is a cultural journalist and academic who divides his time between Toronto and Regina. He has written for many publications including the Globe and Mail, Slate.com, the Boston Globe, the Walrus, the American Prospect, the Comics Journal, the Virginia Quarterly Review and the Guardian of London. He has co-edited eight books and been a contributing editor to another eight volumes. With Kent Worcester, Jeet co-edited A Comics Studies Reader (University Press of Mississippi), which won the Peter C. Rollins Book Award given annually to the best book in American Studies or Cultural Studies. He's been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. His articles have been anthologized in both The Best American Comics Criticism (Fantagraphics) and The Best Canadian Essays collection for 2012. With Chris Ware, Jeet continues to edit the Walt and Skeezix series from Drawn and Quarterly, which is now entering its sixth volume.

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Michael C.K. Ma is professor of Criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and a board member of the Chinese Canadian National Council - Toronto Chapter.

 

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