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Literature plays "an important role in the production & reproduction of the canon, & #39;cultural literacy,& #39; & & #39;legitimate knowledge& #39;" - Tim Rosenwong today on "& #39;Diversity& #39; in the Canon of Literature: Asian Representation in the Black/White Paradigm of Race" #AsEA2021 #DisruptTexts
To underscore the under- and mis-representation of AAPI voices in literature, Rosenwong points to the #aplit "representative authors list" - Majority are White authors, with 13.6% of authors Black, 4.7% AAPI #AsEA2021 #DisruptTexts
Guiding questions for this session:
What do we teach?
How do we teach?
Who teaches?
Parallels the #DisruptTexts Core Principles! #AsEA2021 https://twitter.com/triciaebarvia/status/1329923631531646983?s=20">https://twitter.com/triciaeba...
What do we teach?
How do we teach?
Who teaches?
Parallels the #DisruptTexts Core Principles! #AsEA2021 https://twitter.com/triciaebarvia/status/1329923631531646983?s=20">https://twitter.com/triciaeba...
Rosenwong discusses White representation of Vietnamese characters in The Things They Carried, referencing Thu Anh Nguyen& #39;s excellent essay, "The Things They Made Me Carry" #AsEA2021 #DisruptTexts https://www.teachingwhilewhite.org/blog/2018/2/1/the-things-they-made-me-carry-inheriting-a-white-curriculum">https://www.teachingwhilewhite.org/blog/2018...
Danielle Kim pointing out the importance of Ts, especially White teachers, doing "due diligence" in teaching books like @geneluenyang& #39;s & #39;American Born Chinese.& #39;
Otherwise even an excellent #ownvoices text like this one can do harm to AAPI students. #AsEA2021 #DisruptTexts
Otherwise even an excellent #ownvoices text like this one can do harm to AAPI students. #AsEA2021 #DisruptTexts
Kim brings into the conversation Ocean Vuong& #39;s excellent @onbeing interview, to illuminate differences in storytelling constructs in "East" and "West" frameworks #AsEA2021 #DisruptTexts https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-being-with-krista-tippett/episode/ocean-vuong-a-life-worthy-of-our-breath-82316109">https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-b...
Related: One of the best books I& #39;ve read recently that really clarified for me how we are socialized into constructs of storytelling and how these constructs can feel like colonization is @salesses& #39;s & #39;Craft in the Real World& #39; #AsEA2021 #DisruptTexts https://twitter.com/triciaebarvia/status/1353447105780719617?s=20">https://twitter.com/triciaeba...
