Faculty Publications

Being (Asian) American Children: Children’s Exploration Of Racial/Cultural Identity And Racism

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Asian American children, autoethnography, racial identity, racism, suda (수다)

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Race Ethnicity and Education

Abstract

This study explores young Asian American children’s emerging ideas of racial identity and experiences of racism through multimodal representations during the COVID-19 Pandemic. To explore children’s identity and understanding of racial experience, we used Suda (수다) with children, which refers to deeply engaged conversations and often involves participants’ emotions. Adopting autoethnography, we used multiple data sources, including documentation of children’s conversations with family relating to their identity and experiences of racism and a collection of children’s artifacts. Findings showed that our children explored their racial identity in various aspects surrounding them, ranging from their body, classroom materials, and passports to their family origins. Suda provided the space for our children to freely explore their racial identities and experiences of Asian racism/Hate Crime.

Department

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Original Publication Date

1-1-2023

DOI of published version

10.1080/13613324.2023.2170434

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