The Wisdom in Our Stories: Asian American Motherscholar Voices

Authors

Cathery Yeh, University of Texas at Austin
Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, University of San Francisco
Betina Hsieh, California State University, Long Beach
Judy Yu, CUNY Queens CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2022

Abstract

This article centers the counternarratives of four Asian American motherscholar teacher educators presented as letters to our children in which we apply tenets of AsianCrit to parenting and education, with racial realism at the forefront. Using Asian Critical Theory and motherscholar research to frame our analysis, themes within and across the data include pressures of cultural assimilation and identity loss, intersectional identities, compliance and resistance to Asianization, and learning from our children. Our Asian American motherscholar stories serve as examples of motherhood as an asset to critical scholarship and praxis.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education on 30 September 2022, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2022.2127010.