Scholars of Color Imagining Educational Research as Reparation for U.S. Imperialism

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

A growing body of research is examining the intersections between educational inequities and systemic racism. However, it seldom names the U.S. empire as the culprit of domestic and global racial atrocities or clarifies how research can serve as an anti-imperialist intervention. Bringing together a panel of intergenerational and racially diverse educational scholars of Color, this symposium includes papers that employ theoretical analysis, (auto)ethnography, and critical phenomenology to highlight African, Asian, and Latinx Diasporas’ struggle and resistance against imperialist educational research, practice, and policy. In so doing, this symposium offers a transnational critique of the U.S. empire and advocates that scholars of Color imagine educational research as reparation for U.S. imperialism.

Sub Unit

• Committee on Scholars of Color in Education

Chair

• Bic Ngo, University of Minnesota

Papers

• Historicizing Chinese Diasporas’ Transnational Civic Engagement with and Resistance against the U.S. Empire - Lin Wu, Western Oregon University; Min Yu, Wayne State University; Wenyu Guo, University of South Florida; Yuechen Sun, University of South Carolina; Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

• Survival Fugitive Practice in Research, Teaching, and Leadership in Dual Language Immersion in Minnesota - Blanca Gabriela Caldas Chumbes, University of Minnesota

• “They Expect You to Be a Superhuman”: Somali Diasporic Women, State-Sanctioned Motherhood, and Schooling - Nimo Abdi, The Ohio State University

• Mapping and Translation as Tactics to Amplify Anti-Imperialist Education - Roozbeh Shirazi, University of Minnesota

Discussant

• Jennifer Brant, University of Toronto - OISE