Race and the City - Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)

September 11, 2001, catapulted North Americans into a new political dimension in myriad ways, including increased scrutiny of immigrants and calls for tighter immigration controls. While such concerns are certainly not new in Canada or the US, their current pervasiveness provides a stark backdrop to questions of the political mobilization of racialized minorities. How have these minority communities mobilized in the past? What strategies will, and should, they employ in the future? How can Canada, with its self-proclaimed multicultural ideals, ensure equity and accessibility for racialized minorities in the political system? Race and the City approaches these questions from a comparative perspective, focusing on Chinese Canadian and Chinese American communities in Toronto and Los Angeles as a sort of multicultural testing grounds.