Examinations of the Relational Racialization of Asian Americans in Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Over the last two decades, critical education researchers have examined the complexities of Asian Americans’ experiences in educational institutions. This interdisciplinary body of literature contends that majoritarian discourses positioning Asian Americans as racial Others have played a key part in upholding the racial logics of antiblackness, settler colonialism, White supremacy, neoliberalism, and U.S. imperialism. This research has also found that, far from passively receiving racializing processes, Asian Americans are and have been active agents who contest, reproduce, and reinterpret them. This symposium furthers the critical expansion of research on Asian Americans in education by centering their agency in racialization processes and considering how Asian American racialization happens in relation to and in conjunction with that of other racialized groups.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Differences and Intersectionalities

Chair

• Eujin Park, Stanford University

Papers

• AsianCrit as a Lens of Racialized Identity Construction for Asian American Teachers - Betina Hsieh, University of Washington; Jung E. Kim, Lewis University

• Examining the Modernist Foundation of Anti-Blackness, Anti-Latinidad, and Anti-Indigeneity in the Colonial Production of APIs - Casey Philip Wong, Georgia State University

• When the Model Minority Myth Shook Up San Francisco Politics: Sinocentric Asianization and the Manipulation of Social Justice Discourse in a Local Election - Kyle L. Chong, Michigan State University

• Cultivating Asian American Critical Consciousness With Racialized Youth Through Community-Based Education - Eujin Park, Stanford University

Discussant

• Edward R. Curammeng, California State University - Dominguez Hills