Coming Home: Stories of Building Spaces for Asian Americans in Language and Literacies Education (Table 8)

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 1:30 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

In this symposium, four Asian American women education scholars focusing on language and literacy studies come together to discuss how they critically challenge the monolithization of Asian American identities– the dehumanizing flattening of the diversity of identities within the Asian American community– existent in education scholarship using counter- (Ladson-Billings, 2013) and re-storying (Thomas & Stornaiuolo, 2016) with and alongside our communities. We will discuss how we have used the stories from our own life experiences and those of our communities to center Asian American identities and literacies in our scholarship and praxis. Collectively, our symposium will explore how, from our particular vantage points as Asian-American women, we strive to work towards the healing and liberation of ourselves and our communities.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chairs

• Ayoung Noh Lee, University of Pennsylvania

• Grace D. Player, University of Connecticut

Participants

• Alisha Nguyen, Lesley University

• Claire Wan, University of Pennsylvania

• Ankhi Guha Thakurta, Boston College

Papers

• Story Circles for Asian American Feminists - Ayoung Noh Lee, University of Pennsylvania

• “We Are Here to Stay”: A Community of Inquiry with Youth of Asian Descent and Teachers - Claire Wan, University of Pennsylvania

• Re-Writing Civic Tales: A Practitioner Restorying of Dominant Sociopolitical Narratives about Asian American Girls and Women - Ankhi Guha Thakurta, Boston College

• Becoming Asian American: The Politics of Languaging, Re-membering, and Belonging - Alisha Nguyen, Lesley University