Re/searching Response-ability in the Wake of Anti-Asian Hate Crime: A Wrestle of Korean American Educators

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this session a group of educational researchers of Korean descent presents autoethnographic accounts combined with arts and explored with varied genres of writing in multiple languages to revisit the notions of nationality, citizenship, immigration, language, and individual (anthropocentric) agency and to explore new possibilities for educational research and praxis. Drawing on ideas presented in two recently published books by Korean-American authors, Cathy Park Hong (2020) and Jeong-Eun Rhee (2021), the presenters grapple with the question of how their personal and collective stories contribute to the critical discussion on race and racism in U.S. educational settings while wrestling with ways to generate healing and connectivity through their current and future scholarship.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Kyung Hwa Lee, University of Georgia

Papers

• Negotiating the Liminal Space: Rememories of Korean Graduate Students at U.S. Universities - Hyeungok Kang, University of Georgia; Sungryung Lyu, The Pennsylvania State University; Sehyun Yun, George Mason University

• Being Asian American Faculty Members Against Invisibility and Silence to/by/in Higher Education - Sophia Han, University of South Florida; Jinhee Kim, Kennesaw State University; Sohyun Meacham, University of Northern Iowa; Su-Jeong Wee, California State University - Los Angeles

• At the Intersection of Nationality, Citizenship, and Response-ability: Re/searching for Our Voice and Place - MinSoo Kim-Bossard, The College of New Jersey; Kyung Hwa Lee, University of Georgia