Reclaiming Selves, Histories, Language, and Culture Through Relational Processes of (Re)membering

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session considers threads of (re)membering in/for education and educational research that engages re-visioning, refusal, embodiment, storying, collaboration, care and mentoring. We present five research papers and projects from emerging and early career Hmong scholars (and their colleagues) who have participated as mentors and mentees in a multi-year national mentoring coalition called Lub Zej Zog. Together, these pieces not only respond to the incredible need for educational research about Hmong people by Hmong people, but also resist erasure and absorption into colonial systems of knowledge and knowledge making. This session engages with the past to map ways to dismantle systems of oppression while building futures that transform and sustain indigenous and ancestral knowledge and ways of being.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Vicky C. Xiong-Lor, California State University - Fresno

Papers

• Sib Hlub Sib Txhawb: A Methodology for HMoob In-relations Mentoring - Vicky C. Xiong-Lor, California State University - Fresno; Kaozong Nancy Mouavangsou, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire; Jenna Cushing-Leubner, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

• Freedom Dreamers: Voices from Southeast Asian American Educators - Nga-Wing Anjela Wong; Choua P. Xiong, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

• HMoob Sonic World Making and Refusal through Cassette Tapes - Caroline Thao, Twin Rivers United School District

• Ancestral Memories: Lug Ntsuag as a Methodology of Healing - Karen Vang, University of California - Davis

• “I Ain’t Tryin’ to Curse Us”: Remembering Hmong Language and Culture with Youth - Pa Nou Vue, University of California - Berkeley

Session Organizer

• Pa Nou Vue, University of California - Berkeley

Discussant

• Ezekiel Joubert, California State University - Los Angeles