Social Science Activism & Social Justice
After Redress
Japanese Canadian and Indigenous Struggles for Justice
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2025
- Category
- Activism & Social Justice, NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Race & Ethnic Relations, Canadian Studies
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774870658
- Publish Date
- Feb 2025
- List Price
- $99.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774870689
- Publish Date
- Mar 2025
- List Price
- $34.99
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Description
Indigenous peoples and Japanese Canadians have demanded justice from the Canadian state for its discriminatory systems of colonization and racial management. Critics have argued that state apologies co-opt those demands. Meanwhile, many Canadian institutions still attempt to control narratives about residential schools and other violences committed against Indigenous peoples, as well and the internment of Japanese Canadians.
After Redress examines how struggles for justice continue long after truth and reconciliation commissions conclude and state redress is made. Contributors to this trenchant volume analyze the complex, often paradoxical redress process from the perspectives of the communities involved. Mechanisms for reconciliation are defined by the settler state, but how do Indigenous peoples and Japanese Canadians reject or conform to Western liberal notions of social justice?
About the authors
Kirsten Emiko McAllister's profile page
Mona Oikawa’s first book, All Names Spoken was published by Sister Vision Press in 1992. Her poetry, short stories and essays have been published in Privileging Sites: Positions in Asian American Studies, The Very Inside, Out Rage, and other anthologies. Frequent visits to the ocean and the mountains help to sustain her life and work in Toronto.
Roy Miki
Roy Miki is a writer, poet, and critic who has taught and written about the work of bpNichol for many years. He was the editor of Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka which won the 1997 Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. His major bibliographic study, A Record of Writing: An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering, won the Gabriel Roy award from the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures as the best book on Canadian Literature for 1991. Miki is also the editor of This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians (1985); Tracing the Paths: Reading‚ Writing The Martyrology (1988); co-editor with Cassandra Kobayashi of Justice in Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement, and Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol.
Cassandra Kobayashi
Cassandra Kobayashi helped shape the grass-roots community movement in Vancouver to seek redress for the forced removal, internment, and abrogation of the rights of Canadians of Japanese ancestry. She served on the national Redress Committee that negotiated the historic 1988 settlement with the Government of Canada. The struggle for redress is documented in her book, Justice in Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement, co-authored with Roy Miki.
