Healing the Body and Healing the Soul: Testimonies of Asian and Asian Americans' Experience of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Asian/Asian American women scholars share our testimonies of Asian/Asian Americans’ experience of anti-Asian racism in an era of intolerance, violence, hatred, fear, and injustice. We begin with a historical overview of racism against Asian/Asian Americans in the United States. We illustrate personal narrative of such an experience during the pandemic time. We conclude with our call for Asian/Asian American educational researchers to work with other researchers, educators, teachers, administrators, parents, students, community workers, policy makers, and other educational workers to build movements that foster “solidarity, integrity, and humility” (Stovall, 2020) and where “creative, harmonious, associative, joyful, and worthwhile” (He, 2016, p. 36; Schubert, 2009a) learning, teaching, and living are possible in a highly contested and impossible world.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 4: Policies and the Politics of Curriculum

Chair

• Cheryl E. Matias, University of Kentucky

Papers

• Navigating Race in Educational Spaces: A Historical Analysis of the Asian Experience in the United States - Suniti Sharma, Saint Joseph's University

• History of Asian Americans for School Curriculum: Immigration, Immigrant Lived Experiences, and Cross-Racial Solidarity Narratives - Dinny Risri Aletheiani, Yale University

• Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Are Rising Amid Coronavirus in the United States - Min Yu, Wayne State University

• Testimonies of Anti-Asian Assaults, Harassment, and Hate Crimes Rise as Coronavirus Spreads in the United States - Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University; Ru Li, Georgia Southern University

Discussants

• Bic H. Ngo, University of Minnesota

• Luis Urrieta, The University of Texas at Austin