Asian American Education Scholars Speaking Truth to the U.S. Empire

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This proposed session brings together Asian American education scholars representing diverse ancestral lineages across Asia: China, Japan, South Korea, India, Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan, and the Philippines. Although we are at various career stages and live in different geographical regions, we aim to leverage our academic and experiential knowledge to speak truth to the U.S. empire through interactive dialogue, counterstorytelling, poetry, oral history, and traditional academic presentations. We hope our focus on empire will entice other educators to undo U.S. imperialism in their research and teaching and advance justice for and with the Asian Diasporas in the United States.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Stacey J. Lee, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• U.S. Foreign and Education Policies as a Site of Imperial Anxiety - Kevin Kumashiro, Hofstra University; Lin Wu, Western Oregon University

• Undoing Entanglements With the U.S. Empire Through Everyday Interactions - Thomas M. Philip, University of California - Berkeley; Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, University of San Francisco

• Leveraging Asian Refugees' Ancestral Knowledge to Counter the Epistemic Hegemony of the U.S. Empire - Bic Ngo, University of Minnesota; Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy, University of Massachusetts - Lowell

• Building a K–12 Asian American Studies Framework to Interrogate the U.S. Empire - Sohyun An, Kennesaw State University; Noreen Naseem Rodriguez, Michigan State University

Discussant

• Roland Sintos Coloma, Wayne State University