Centering Countergazes to Reconstruct Hyperinvisible (En)Counters

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Perspectives on News Media Production, Education, and (Counter)Engagement (Table 11)

Abstract

BIPOC students encounter a barrage of visual and verbal assaults in the socio-cultural landscape and are constantly surveilled. Such hyperinvisible encounters are violent and can leave BIPOC embattled for psychological and physiological preservation. And, yet hyperinvisible (en)counters are not simply sites of BIPOC damage, but can be a catalyst for agency, critique and resistance. By foregrounding the experiential knowledge of HMong students, this paper aims to reconstruct understanding of hyperinvisible (en)counters (vs. encounters) in ways that highlight HMong agency without obscuring racialized spaces (of media, scholarship, and education institutions) in order to render visible and denaturalize white gazes.

Author

• Rican Vue, University of California - Riverside
  Presenting Author