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View article: Disrupting Deficit Discourses about Hmong Culture
Disrupting Deficit Discourses about Hmong Culture Open
Dominant discourses persistently portray Hmong Americans as stuck in time and tied to Hmong cultural traditions. This article suggests dominant discourses about the oppression of Hmong culture are mechanisms of White supremacy. It examines…
View article: Educating Hope, Radicalizing Imagination, and Politicizing Possibility in Hard Times
Educating Hope, Radicalizing Imagination, and Politicizing Possibility in Hard Times Open
This manuscript introduces a dialogue on educating hope, radicalizing imagination, and politicizing possibility. It provides both conceptual and empirical, challenge traditional ways of engaging in and interpreting research, and affirm the…
View article: Identity Work: Enactment of Racial-Ethnic Identity in Everyday Life
Identity Work: Enactment of Racial-Ethnic Identity in Everyday Life Open
In this theoretical analysis, we discuss the attributional and enactment approaches to identity and present a new Ethnic-Racial Identity Enactment Model derived from extant theory and research. We highlight modes of identity work that prov…
View article: Hmong Culture Club as a Place of Belonging: The Cultivation of Hmong Students’ Cultural and Political Identities
Hmong Culture Club as a Place of Belonging: The Cultivation of Hmong Students’ Cultural and Political Identities Open
In this article, I draw on a year-long ethnographic study of an after school “Hmong Culture Club” to illuminate the ways in which it provides students with a place of belonging. I reveal the ways in which Hmong students in this setting tak…
View article: [Special Issue on Hmong Newcomers to Saint Paul Public Schools] Introduction
[Special Issue on Hmong Newcomers to Saint Paul Public Schools] Introduction Open
In the late 1970s the aftermath of the Vietnam War brought displaced Hmong refugees (along with other Southeast Asian groups) to the United States (Chan, 1994; Long, 1993). Other waves of Hmong resettlement to the United States occurred in…
View article: [Special Issue on Hmong Newcomers to Saint Paul Public Schools] The Affective Consequences of Cultural Capital: Feelings of Powerlessness, Gratitude, and Faith among Hmong Refugee Parents
[Special Issue on Hmong Newcomers to Saint Paul Public Schools] The Affective Consequences of Cultural Capital: Feelings of Powerlessness, Gratitude, and Faith among Hmong Refugee Parents Open
In education research, the analysis of the role of cultural capital has focused primarily on its role in parent involvement. Little attention has been paid to how cultural capital affects the attitudes or feelings of parents about their wo…