After Redress
Japanese Canadian and Indigenous Struggles for Justice
Indigenous peoples and Japanese Canadians have demanded justice from the Canadian state for its discriminatory systems of colonization and racial management. And over the last two decades, 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 as 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 process of redress 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? What are the links between knowledge systems and governance, between narrative tactics and political strategy?
After Redress uncovers the effectiveness and the effects of demands for reparations and strategies to assert resistance.
This collection will have broad appeal for scholars and students of Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian studies, Indigenous studies, critical race studies, and sociology. It is also necessary reading for activist members of Japanese Canadian and Indigenous communities, and for all those concerned with social justice alliances with Indigenous peoples and other racialized groups.
Kirsten Emiko McAllister is a professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Among her publications are Locating Memory: Photographic Acts, Terrain of Memory: A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project, and Migration and Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives.
Mona Oikawa is a faculty member in the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at York University and a writer of poetry and creative nonfiction. She is the author of Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment.
Unsettling the Settler Within
Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada
By Paulette Regan; Foreword by Taiaiake Alfred
Power through Testimony
Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation
Edited by Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne
