This course has no textbooks. The following articles are assigned readings for each week, all of which can be accessed through the UBC Library, Google Scholar (via UBC Library’s extended access), or through the accompanied link – unless otherwise provided.
Each week will contain a couple of citations preceded by asterisks (*). These are just recommended readings, and are simply additional readings “for your own interest”. They are not required readings.
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Subramaniam, V. (2020, June 2). Vanmala Subramaniam: Before you declare Canada is not a racist country, do your homework. National Post. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/vanmala-subramaniam-before-you-declare-canada-is-not-a-racist-country-do-your-homework
Yu, H. S. N. (2016). Asian Canadian history. In D. K. Yoo & E. Azuma (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Asian American history. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199860463.013.35
Costigan, C. L., Taknint, J. T., Mudryk, E., & Al Qudayri, B. (2022). Building Community: Connecting refugee and Canadian families. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 28(3), 338-348. doi:10.1037/cdp0000428
Östlund, U., Kidd, L., Wengstrӧm, Y., & Rowa-Dewar, N. (2011). Combining qualitative and quantitative research within mixed method research designs: A methodological review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 48, 369-383. doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2010.10.005
*Bains, S. K., & Sandhra, S. K. (2019). The battle for the South Asian right to the vote. British Columbia History, 52(1), 18-23. Access it here.
*Becker, H. S. (1996). The epistemology of qualitative research. In R. Jessor, A. Colby, and R. A. Shweder (Eds.), Ethnography and human development: Context and meaning in social inquiry (pp. 53-71). University of Chicago Press.
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| Week 2: |
Wheeler, A. (Director). (1995). The war between us [Film]. Troika Films. http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=11458301
Canadian Race Relations Foundation. (2009). From racism to redress: The Japanese Canadian experience. https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ePubFaShRacRedJap.pdf
Hopper, T. (2016, December 14). Rare views of Japanese-Canadian internment: 19 images remembering one of Canada’s dark hours. National Post. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/rare-views-of-japanese-canadian-internment-19-images-remembering-one-of-canadas-darkest-hours
Stanger-Ross, J., & Blomley, N. (2017). ‘My land is worth a million dollars’: How Japanese Canadians contested their dispossession in the 1940s. Law and History Review, 35(3), 711-752. doi:10.1017/S073824801700027X
*CBC News. (2018, September 22). Government apologizes to Japanese Canadians in 1988. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/archives/government-apologizes-to-japanese-canadians-in-1988-1.4680546
*Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. (n.d.). 1939 to 1945 – World War II and the Japanese Internment. Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. https://www.leg.bc.ca/dyl/Pages/1939-to-1945-World-War-II-and-the-Japanese-Internment.aspx
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| Week 3: |
Adams, G. R., & Marshall, S. K. (1996). A developmental social psychology of identity: understanding the person-in-context. Journal of Adolescence, 19(5), 429-442. doi:10.1006/jado.1996.0041
Hong, Y., Zhan, S., Morris, M. W., & Benet-Martinez, V. (2016). Multicultural identity processes. Current Opinion in Psychology, 8, 49-53. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.09.020
Chong, V., & Kuo, B. C. H. (2015). Racial identity profiles of Asian-White biracial young adults: Testing a theoretical model with cultural and psychological correlates. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 6(3), 203-212. doi:10.1037/aap0000022
Gambol, B. (2016). Changing racial boundaries and mixed unions: the case of second-generation Filipino Americans. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 19(14), 2621-2640. doi:10.1080/01419870.2016.1164879
*Stroink, M. L., & Lalonde, R. N. (2009). Bicultural identity conflict in second-generation Asian Canadians. The Journal of Social Psychology, 149(1), 44–65. doi:10.3200/SOCP.149.1.44-65
*CBC News. (2021, May 23). A mixed race Asian Calgarian reflects on his childhood experiences with systemic racism. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/community/asian-heritage-month-heath-kai-1.6035111
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| Week 4: |
Yoshizawa, A. (Director). (2016). All our father’s relations [Film]. Right Relations. https://gem.cbc.ca/media/absolutely-canadian/s17e10?cmp=sch-all%20our%20father%27s%20relations
Diabo, G. K. (2019). Bad feelings, feeling bad: The affects of Asian-Indigenous coalition. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 20(2), 257-270. doi:10.1080/14649373.2019.1613729
Ng, G. A. W. (2020). Complexities in religious education with Asian/Asian Canadians and Indigenous realities: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report on Residential Schools. Religious Education, 115(3), 315-322. doi:10.1080/00344087.2020.1772622
Phung, M. (2011). Are people of colour settlers too? In A. Mathur, J. Dewar, & M. DeGagné (Eds.), Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the lens of cultural diversity (pp. 289-298). Aboriginal Healing Foundation. Access it here.
*Catungal, J. P. (2017). The lessons of travel: Teaching queer Asian Canada through Joella Cabalu’s It runs in the family and Alejandro Yoshizawa’s All our father’s relations. Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 38, 93-101. doi:10.3138/topia.38.93
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| Week 5: |
Fuks, N., Smith, N. G., Peláez, S., De Stefano, J., & Brown, T. L. (2018). Acculturation experiences among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender immigrants in Canada. The Counselling Psychologist, 46(3), 296-332. doi:10.1177/0011000018768538
Saunders, D. (2018, June 15). For this generation of Filipino-Canadians, broken policies have left a scar. The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-for-this-generation-of-filipino-canadians-broken-policies-have-left-a/
Hwang, H. G., Debnath, R., Meyer, M., Salo, V. C., Fox, N. A., & Woodward, A. (2021). Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants’ neural responses to people of different races. Developmental Science, 24(4), e13070. doi:10.1111/desc.13070
Ku, J. (2011). Ethnic activism and multicultural politics in immigrant settlementin Toronto, Canada. Social Identities, 17(2), 271-289. doi:10.1080/13504630.2010.524785
*Cheung, B. Y., Chudek, M., & Heine, S. J. (2011). Evidence for a sensitive period for acculturation: Younger immigrants report acculturating at a faster rate. Psychological Science, 22(2), 147-152. doi:10.1177/0956797610394661
*Park, T. J. (2021, March 26). Tackling racism against Asian-Canadians as multiculturalism turns 50. Policy Options. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/march-2021/tackling-racism-against-asian-canadians-as-multiculturalism-turns-50/ doi:10.1111/desc.13070
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| Week 6: |
Lee, M. Y. H. (2019, May 2). She’s Asian and female. But she’s not me. The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/02/shes-asian-female-shes-not-me/
Patel, S. (2019). “Brown girls can’t be gay”: Racism experienced by queer South Asian women in the Toronto LGBTQ community. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 23(3), 410-423. doi:10.1080/10894160.2019.1585174
Price, J. (2020, May 22). Racism is on the rise. And Asian Canadians are fighting back. The Tyee. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020/05/22/Racism-Rising-Asian-Canadians-Fighting-Back/
Fang, L., Lee, E., Chan, K., Al-Raes, M., & Nuesca, E. (2023). “It goes under the radar!”: In/visibility of anti-Asian racism from a Canadian youth perspective. Youth & Society. doi:10.1177/0044118X231220390
Nguyen, N.-M. (2016). I tweet like a white person tbh! #whitewashed: Examining the language of internalized racism and the policing of ethnic identity on Twitter. Social Semotics, 26(5), 505-523. doi:10.1080/10350330.2015.1126046
*Chiu, J. (2020, August 3). Confessions of a ‘model minority’: How I’m learning to confront my own biases. The Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/08/03/confessions-of-a-model-minority-how-im-learning-to-confront-my-own-biases.html
*Wong, E. (2021, June 14). I’ve been called ‘half-breed’ and ‘mutt.’ I’m a biracial Asian woman and proud. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/biracial-asian-first-person-essay-1.6052523
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| Week 8: |
Bhutani, A., & Tenneti, A. (2020, August 18). Searching for anti-racism agendas in South Asian Canadian communities. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/searching-for-anti-racism-agendas-in-south-asian-canadian-communities-142431
Kim, C. J. (2018). Are Asians the new Black? Affirmative action, anti-Blackness, and the “sociometry” of race. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 15(2), 217-244. doi:10.1017/S1742058X18000243
Cowper-Smith, Y. (2022). Knowledge-practices of the collective self: The Rohingya social movement in Canada. In N. Uddin (Ed.), The Rohingya crisis: Human rights issues, policy concerns and burden sharing. Sage Publications.
Hajjar, D. (2020, August 6). After the Beirut blasts, the Lebanese diaspora is left between helplessness and guilt. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/06/after-beirut-blasts-lebanese-diaspora-is-left-between-helplessness-guilt/
Yam, S.-Y. S. (2021). Diasporic discordance: On memories and Hong Kong. In N. Wong (Ed.), Looking back at Hong Kong: An anthology of writing and art (pp. 138-147). Cart Noodles Press. Access it here
*Sherwani, A. (2020, May 13). Spill the Chai: On colourism in the South Asian community. The Gauntlet. https://thegauntlet.ca/2020/05/13/spill-the-chai-on-colourism-in-the-south-asian-community/
*Abbas, N. (2021, May 17). Guilt in a time of COVID: The diaspora communities who must watch on. Shoutout UK. https://www.shoutoutuk.org/2021/05/17/guilt-in-a-time-of-covid-the-diaspora-communities-who-must-watch-on/
*Wang, R. (2020, July 1). Notes on home: Reflections, far removed, on change in Hong Kong. Inkstick Media. https://inkstickmedia.com/notes-on-home/
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| Week 9: |
Chung, A. (Director). (2020). White elephant [Film]. Jade Pictures. Retrieved from: https://gem.cbc.ca/media/white-elephant/s01e01
Poolokasingham, G., Spanierman, L. B., Kleiman, S., & Houshmand, S. (2014). “Fresh off the boat?” racial microaggressions that target South Asian Canadian students. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 7(3), 194-210. doi:10.1037/a0037285
Kaur, R. (2012). The Komagata Maru in history and literary narrative: Cultural memory, representation, and social justice. South Asian Popular Culture, 10(2), 151-165. doi:10.1080/14746689.2012.682867
*Simon Fraser University Library (2011). Komagata Maru: Continuing the journey. http://komagatamarujourney.ca/
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| Week 10: |
Chan-Yip, A. (2004). Health promotion and research in the Chinese community in Montreal: A model of culturally appropriate health care. Paediatrics & Child Health, 9(9), 627-629. doi:10.1093/pch/9.9.627
Kim, I.-H., Carrasco, C., Muntaner, C., McKenzie, K., & Noh, S. (2013). Ethnicity and postmigration health trajectory in new immigrants to Canada. American Journal of Public Health, 103, e96-e104. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.301185
Lofters, A. K., McBride, M. L., Li, D., Whitehead, M., Moineddin, R., Jiang, L., Grunfeld, E., Groome, P. A., & the CanIMPACT Team (2019). Disparities in breast cancer diagnosis for immigrant women in Ontario and BC: Results from the CanIMPACT study. BMC Cancer, 19(42). doi:10.1186/s12885-018-5201-0
Johnson, J. L., Bottoroff, J. L., Hilton, B. A., Browne, A. J., & Grewell, J. (2002). Recognizing discrimination in nursing practice: Findings from a study of South Asian women and their health care providers in British Columbia help to alert nurses to the subtle yet powerful forms of racism that can inadvertently occur in everyday practice. The Canadian Nurse, 98(5), 24-27.
Juric, A. (2021). Unseen: Ranjit’s story. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/440063875
Lin, S. (2021). Access to health care among racialised immigrants to Canada in later life: A theoretical and empirical synthesis. Ageing & Society, 1-25. doi:10.1017/S0144686X20001841
Puzan, E. (2003). The unbearable whiteness of being (in nursing). Nursing Inquiry, 10(3), 193-200. doi:10.1046/j.1440-1800.2003.00180.x
*Lin, S. (in press). Intersectionality and inequalities in medical risk for severe COVID-19 in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. The Gerontologist. doi:10.1093/geront/gnaa143
*Oudshoorn, A. (2020, August 20). The unbearable whiteness of nursing. Canadian Nurse. https://www.canadian-nurse.com/dev-cn-en/blogs/cn-content/2020/08/20/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-nursing
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| Week 11: |
Jisrawi, A., & Arnold, C. (2018). Cultural humility and mental health care in Canadian Muslim communities. Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 52(1), 43–64. doi:10.1177/0020764018805125
Tiwari, S. K., & Wang, J. (2008). Ethnic differences in mental health service use among White, Chinese, South Asian and South East Asian populations living in Canada. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 43, 866-871. doi:10.1007/s00127-008-0373-6
Poon, C., Saewyc, E., & Chen, W. (2012). Enacted stigma, problem substance use, and protective factors among Asian sexual minority youth in British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 30(2), 47-64. doi:10.7870/cjcmh-2011-0016
Virdee, G. (2020). Let’s talk about mental health in South Asian communities. CAMH. https://www.camh.ca/en/camh-news-and-stories/lets-talk-about-mental-health-in-south-asian-communities
*Livingston, J., Patel, N., Bryson, S., Hoong, P., Lal, R., Morrow, M., & Guruge, S. (2018). Stigma associated with mental illness among Asian men in Vancouver, Canada. Psychological Science, 64(7), 679-689. doi:10.1177/0020764018805125
*Li, W. (2019, February 3). Tackling mental health stigma in the Asian diaspora, one post at a time. Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/02/03/tackling-mental-health-stigma-one-post-at-a-time.html
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| Week 12: |
Fung, R. (Director). (2016). Re:Orientations [Film]. Third World Newsreel. http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=11112370
Fung, R. (Director). (1986). Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians [Film]. Vtape. http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=11212012
Giwa, S. & Greensmith, C. (2012). Race relations and racism in the LGBTQ community of Toronto: Perceptions of gay and queer social service providers of color. Journal of Homosexuality, 59(2), 149-185. doi:10.1080/00918369.2012.648877
Leung, H. H.-S. (2017). Our city of colours: queer/Asian publics in transpacific Vancouver. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 18(4), 482-497. doi:10.1080/14649373.2017.1387091
*El Shennawy, S., Sabah, H., & Peacock, M. (2021). For LGBTQ+ Arab youth finding identity and acceptance is a complex struggle. Capital Current. https://capitalcurrent.ca/for-lgbtq-arab-youth-finding-identity-and-acceptance-is-a-complex-struggle/
*Viau, J. (2019, July 25). ‘I was told to keep hiding’: Arab trans community starts support group to fill gap. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/arab-trans-support-group-1.5224269
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| Week 13: |
Guha, A. (2016). Is Ayurvedic medicine safe? Taking care of your health and wellbeing. https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/ayurvedic-medicine/-ayurvedic-medicine-safe-0
Ijaz, N., Boon, H., Muzzin, L., & Welsh, S. (2016). State risk discourse and the regulatory preservation of traditional medicine knowledge: The case of acupuncture in Ontario, Canada. Social Science & Medicine, 170, 97-105. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.08.037
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. (2019). Ayurvedic medicine: In depth. NCCIH. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/ayurvedic-medicine-in-depth
Efferth, T., Alexie, G., Andersch, K., & Banerjee, M. (2020). First Nations healing: From traditional medicine to experimental ethnopharmacology. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 68(2), 159-175. doi:10.1515/zaa-2020-0017
France, H. & Rodriguez, C. (2019). Traditional Chinese medicine in Canada: An Indigenous perspective. Chinese Medicine and Culture, 2, 1-5. doi:10.4103/CMAC.CMAC_2_19
*Tian, P. (2011). Convergence: Where West meets East. Nature, 480, S84-S86. doi:480S84a
*Cai, Y. (2017, March 29). Indigenous people include Chinese medicine for traditional healing. The Thunderbird. https://thethunderbird.ca/2017/03/29/indigenous-groups-turn-to-chinese-medicine/
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