“Spoilers” for or Against Equity? Implications of Asian American Racialization Across Regional and Institutional Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session examines how Asian American educational stakeholders—students, parents, teachers, and community members—experience and perceive issues at the intersection of race, racialization, and educational opportunity. The papers explore how Asian American stakeholders experience racialization in relation to whiteness, Blackness, and other Asian Americans; and how their experiences complicate notions of racial representation and power. Together, this session demonstrates how schools and other educational contexts racially position Asian Americans, and how they position themselves, in ways that both challenge and perpetuate white dominance, anti-Blackness, and the model minority narrative. By the same token, we illuminate possibilities for interrupting ongoing patterns of racial injustice experienced among Asian Americans and other people of color.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Shuang Fu, New York University

Papers

• “Trying to Make Me Feel Like I’m White”: Asian Americans’ Racialized Experiences in Teacher Education - Eujin Park, Stanford University; Faith Kwon, Stanford University; Candice Jeehae Kim, Stanford University

• Interrogating “Racial and Linguistic Equity” in Mandarin-English Dual Language Immersion Programs - Catherine Park, University of California - Berkeley

• Perspectives on Race and Educational Opportunity Among Asian Americans at Unscreened High Schools - Elise Castillo, Trinity College

• Race, Place, and Risk: How Asian Americans Frame K-12 Selective Admissions Reforms - Shirley Hui Xu, Vanderbilt University

Discussant

• Richard Blissett, University of Maryland - Baltimore County