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Literature plays "an important role in the production & reproduction of the canon, 'cultural literacy,' & 'legitimate knowledge'" - Tim Rosenwong today on "'Diversity' 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
What do we teach?
How do we teach?
Who teaches?
Parallels the #DisruptTexts Core Principles! #AsEA2021 https://twitter.com/triciaebarvia/status/1329923631531646983?s=20
Rosenwong discusses White representation of Vietnamese characters in The Things They Carried, referencing Thu Anh Nguyen'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
Danielle Kim pointing out the importance of Ts, especially White teachers, doing "due diligence" in teaching books like @geneluenyang's 'American Born Chinese.'
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'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
Related: One of the best books I'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's 'Craft in the Real World' #AsEA2021 #DisruptTexts https://twitter.com/triciaebarvia/status/1353447105780719617?s=20
Session ends with the need for more AAPI teachers, who are disproportionately underrepresented in schools (<2% of Ts are AAPI).
I'll also add how critical it is for AAPI Ts, as with all Ts, to do heavy and necessary work of unpacking their own internalized oppression. #AsEA2021
I'll also add how critical it is for AAPI Ts, as with all Ts, to do heavy and necessary work of unpacking their own internalized oppression. #AsEA2021
