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Asian Diaspora Inquiries: Decolonizing and Deimperializing Theoretical and Methodological Traditions

Sun, April 14, 1:15 to 2:45pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 116

Session Type: Symposium

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Asian diaspora educational workers explore Asian diasporas as methodologies inherent in five programs of inquiry into historical struggles of Asian diaspora people in the United States. Drawing upon a wide array of decolonizing and deimperializing methodological traditions, Asian diaspora inquiries purposefully work against orientalized, imperialized, racialized, gendered, classed, and other intersected oppressions. These inquiries allow participants to name their predicaments, tell their stories, ask hard questions, and contest deficit narratives that further marginalize their existence. With unfaltering commitment to humility, solidarity, and justice, these inquiries trouble methodological traditions and challenge imperialized and colonized ways of engaging in, interpreting, and writing about research. Decolonizing and deimperializing theoretical traditions, forms of inquiry, and modes of representation will be explored.

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