Invited Symposium. Centering Critical Ethnic Studies in K–20 Education Today: Building Racial Solidarity Across K–12 Schools and Higher Education

Session Type: Virtual Symposium

Abstract

This session highlights multiracial scholar activists, teacher educators, youths whose research and practice focuses on centering the racial injustice of Asian American histories and narratives in K-12 education. This session serves as an example of critical research and practices that illuminates students’ experiences in a school setting that privileges their experiential knowledge and centers the racial injustice of Asian American history and narratives in an academic space that they co-created and co-interpreted.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans

Chair

• Yanghee Anna Kim, Kennesaw State University

Papers

• Unlearning and Relearning Our Truths: Racial Solidarity Across Black and Asian Communities in K–20 Education - Judy W. Yu, Queens College - CUNY; Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

• No Longer Silent: Speaking Solidarity With Black and Asian Students - Diana Liu, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Strengthening Our Black and Asian Solidarity Through Adversity - David O. Beauzil, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussant

• Yan Liu, University of North Carolina - Wilmington