Although the term “Asian Canadian” has been in use in research since the 1970’s, it has been surprisingly lacking in academia. While universities and colleges throughout North America and the rest of the world have academic programs in interdisciplinary topics as Nineteenth Century Studies, American Studies, Critical Studies in Sexuality, and Asian American Studies, there has yet to be any academic program or degree that specializes in “Asian Canadian Studies.”

Cultural Legacy

Why Asian Canadian Studies? According to a Professor of English at UBC, Christopher Lee’s seminal essay The Lateness of Asian Canadian Studies, historical racism is large reason why there is a need for such courses. Although anti-Asian racism has had a long and well-documented history in Canada, these historical inateractions are often simplified, sanitized, or completely obscured in public discourse, an ongoing erasure that marginalizes Asian Canadians across a number of public spheres.

Role of Asian Canadian Studies

The role of Asian Canadian Studies then, should be to instigate changes in curriculum, instruction, and research in order to stimulate wider dialogues on the legacies and effects of racism and other forms of oppression. In fact, because cities such as Vancouver and Toronto have significant Asian populations, prioritizing scholarship and teaching that address cultural differences and racial hierarchies should be a matter of common sense. Perhaps the largest obstacle is the racial politics of defining "Asian Canadian" itself, which often categorizes Pacific Rim countries (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean), while overlooking other ethnicities such as Filipinos, East Indians, Pakistani, or Indonesians.

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