Refusing Racial Injustice: Generating Educational Possibilities Through HMoob Theory and Praxis

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Addressing the rise of anti-Asian racism and attacks on ethnic studies, the emerging scholarship on HMoob (Hmong/Mong) within educational studies offers ample opportunities to re-imagine a social reality that eradicates racist educational practices. Scholarship on HMoob and education has critically examined race (DePouw, 2012; Lee, 2005; Ngo & Lee, 2007; Smolerak et al., 2021; Xiong et al., 2018), but there remain questions about how HMoob-centric research expands understanding of racialized education. This panel aims to move beyond critiques of racial injustice by proposing HMoob epistemologies and ontologies as one way to cultivate a socially-just society. HMoob knowledge works to refuse white supremacists, sexists, capitalists, and nation-state-centric norms. Thus, HMoob knowledge provides crucial theoretical, methodological, and empirical forms of educational possibilities.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Kaozong Nancy Mouavangsou, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

Papers

• Regenerating a Caub Fab Feminist Approach - Karen Vang, University of California - Davis

• Menyuam Laib Ua Tau Laib: Using a Theory of Menyuam Laib as an Analytical Framework to Understand How Queer and Trans HMoob Youth Disrupt White-Cis-Het-Patriarchal Violence - Doua Kha, University of Washington

• It Takes a Village to Graduate a HMoob Student - Chundou Her, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Mai Chong Yang, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh; Matthew Wolfgram, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• “Lees ua HMoob”: Stateless Approach to Educational Research With Displaced Youth - Choua P. Xiong, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

Discussant

• Kaozong Nancy Mouavangsou, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire