Review of \u3ci\u3eRe-Imagining Ukranian Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity\u3c/i\u3e edited by Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk

Hinther and Mochoruk offer the reader an interdisciplinary look at aspects of Canadian history through the prism of the Ukrainian Canadian experience. The volume includes contributions from an array of specialists: historians, literary critics, archivists, curators, geographers, and others. Consequently, the quality of the articles is wide-ranging, but overall the editors succeed in demonstrating that the immigrant experience is neither homogeneous nor adequately studied. The editors\u27 introduction is most helpful, succinctly describing the state of academic inquiry into the Ukrainian Canadian experience. The editors accurately describe the mythology of the prairie peasant-cum-dangerous foreigner. They present the evolution of scholarship from essentializing Ukrainian identity to recognizing its complex nature, noting the invaluable works of Frances Swyripa and Orest Martynowych. The volume\u27s focus on the Ukrainian Canadian left and the early and mid-twentieth-century shift of community activity to urban centers deepens our understanding of this complexity. Nevertheless, there is a surprising lack of attention to the prairie experience