Asian Critical Mentoring as a Third Space of Ontological Resistance

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Abstract

Exploring Eurocentric ontologies of American universities that invisibilize the experiences of communities of Color, this qualitative study offers new possibilities for doctoral students and faculty through critical mentoring, creating third spaces that generate learning opportunities rooted in the legitimacy of cultural knowledge. We center three Southeast Asian students and two Asian/American (AA) faculty at a public university, highlighting the unique obstacles they face and strategies for overcoming them. Merging case study (Yin, 2014) with collaborative autoethnography (Chang et al., 2013), we employ critical discourse analysis (Van Dijk, 1993) and AsianCrit (Iftikar & Museus, 2018) to examine how racist institutional ideologies perpetuate exclusion and influence Asian academic trajectories. A co-created third space of resistance emerged through critical mentoring and culturally-sustaining onto-epistemologies.

Authors

• Robin Brandehoff, University of Colorado - Denver

• Daranee Taychachaiwongse Teng, University of Colorado - Denver

• Amie Hạ, University of Colorado - Denver

• John Tan Tran, University of Colorado - Denver

• Tom Su, University of Colorado - Denver