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Owner: Xiaoyi Wei
Owner Email: xwei@brockport.edu
Paper Title: (On Not Just) Reading Someone Else's Story About White Supremacy and Racism
Session Title: Local, State, and Regional Contexts in Higher Education (Table 5)
Paper Type: Roundtable Presentation
Presentation Date: 4/14/2023
Presentation Location: Chicago, IL
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Equity, Higher Education
Methodology: Qualitative
Author(s): Xiaoyi Wei, Teachers College, Columbia University; Celia J. Oyler, Teachers College, Columbia University
Unit: Division J - Postsecondary Education
Abstract: This study aims to expand and deepen international and U.S. university students’ and faculty’s understandings of issues related to white supremacy, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, racism, and ethnocentrism as understood by Asian international students. Taking an AsianCrit lens, the researchers document how some Asian international students experience the curriculum/instruction in U.S. graduate classrooms that are oriented toward racial/ethnic equity. They argue that the racial/ethnic equity-related concepts taught in the U.S graduate classroom are often novel to Asian international students and very U.S-contextually based so Asian students report feeling outside and wondering how to participate. The long-term project of the researchers is to collate and analyze curricular resources that help to bring Asian international students into university conversations about racial/ethnic equity-related issues.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/2004260