An innovative examination of continuing calls for justice in the wake of state redress and reconciliation agreements in Canada.
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. In addition, many Canadian institutions still attempt to control narratives about residential schools and other violence committed against Indigenous peoples, and about 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?
Introduction: Japanese Canadian and Indigenous Writings on Justice
"After Redress" / Kirsten Emiko McAllister and Mona Oikawa
1 Redress Settlements as Colonial Recognition / Bonita Lawrence
2 Web of Recognition: The National Association of Japanese Canadians and the
1989 Task Force on First Nations Peoples / Mona Oikawa
3 The Reconciliation That Never Was: Political Skulduggery on Indigenous
Lands / Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian
4 Whither Redress? Interrogating Liberal Multicultural Accounts of Japanese
Canadian History / R. Tod Duncan
5 Narrating the After of the Moment of Redress: Fred Kelly's "Confession of a
Born Again Pagan" and Roy Miki's Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call
for Justice / Smaro Kamboureli
6 The Political Act of Defining Ourselves After Redress: Japanese Canadian
Activism, Identity, and What Can Be Learned from the Principles of Indigenous
Storytelling / Kirsten Emiko McAllister
7 Post-Redress Japanese Canadian Scholar Activism / Audrey Kobayashi and Jeff
Masuda
List of Contributors
Index
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.
