Coalitional Resistance: Our Educational Responsibility to Support Women of Color in Teacher Education

• In Event: Educators of Color on Race and Resistance

Abstract

This paper draws from a framework of coalitional resistance and the authors’ own experiences in multiple mentoring relationships to examine our educational responsibility in teacher education (TED) to provide critical, engaged support for women teacher-educator scholars of color and teacher candidates so that they may survive and thrive in their work. We interrogate the “unnatural invisibility” (Yamada, 2003) and stereotypes of Asian American women by using counter-narratives to illustrate how we individually and collectively drew on our strengths in developing culturally-informed coalitional resistance. Drawing from Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) (Yosso, 2005) and AsianCrit (Museus & Iftikar, 2013), we demonstrate how we have successfully navigated and resisted evolving microaggressions (Sue et al., 2007) we have encountered in TED spaces.

Authors

• Betina Hsieh, California State University - Long Beach

• Huong Tran Nguyen, California State University - Long Beach