Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion and Diaspora

Becky R. Lee and Sailaja Krishnamurti, eds. Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion and Diaspora (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2021).

This edited volume explores the multifaceted ways that women in diaspora communities have shaped, challenged and transformed religious identities and practices in Canada’s complex cultural landscape.  Contributors reflect on the experiences of racialized and Indigenous women connected to diaspora communities of South Asia, East Asia, the Caribbean, and Turtle Island/North America. Women in these communities contend with the politics of gender, race, identity, and marginalization in Canada while also negotiating relationships to homelands, ethnic communities, and religious groups and institutions. The authors’ reflections on these women’s stories and experiences employ diverse theoretical approaches to ‘diaspora’ and engage with diverse research methods, drawing on interdisciplinary strategies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Focusing on Canada as a location for diasporic communities, rather than tracing multiple nodes of a particular diaspora group, the essays illuminate the ways diaspora experiences are shaped in part by discourses of settler colonialism, multiculturalism, and Canadian nationhood.

Year of Publication: 2021
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