Reframing Asian American Racialization and Interrogating the Specificity of Anti-Blackness

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

We consider what it means to reframe our understanding of Asian American racialization in education around critical racial theoretical perspectives. We present four studies on in various educational contexts—student debt in higher education, racial trauma among Southeast Asian immigrants, Asian-Black solidarity through researcher positionality, and youths’ zine-making around anti-Asian violence, anti-Black racism and cross-racial solidarity. What new insights might we uncover about the racialization of Asian American in education when we specify anti-Blackness in our interrogations? How might an intersectional, critical racial examination of Asian American racialization help rupture racist structures and systems in education? We offer implications for intersectional, critical racial framings in educational research and pedagogy (e.g. higher education, teacher education, and ethnic studies curriculum).

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Rossina Zamora Liu, University of Maryland

Papers

• Asian Student Loan Borrowers in Anti-Black Student Loan Systems: Review of Research and Public Discourse - Nancy Wong, University of Maryland

• "American Dream" and Nightmares: Illuminating the Racial Shadows of the Model Minority Myth - Jenny Sak, University of Maryland

• Embodying Asian-Black Solidarity Through Researcher Positionality - Alice Y. Lee, University of California - Riverside

• Beyond Invisibility and Myths: Asian American Youths’ Zine-Making Around Anti-Asian Violence, Anti-Blackness, and Cross-Racial Solidarity - Rossina Zamora Liu, University of Maryland; Nandini Wagle, Centennial High School, University of Maryland; Renee Wu, Sentinel High School; Rolonda L. Payne, University of Maryland

Discussant

• OiYan A. Poon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign