This article uses critical race theory (CRT) to analyze two stories about racial microaggressions... more This article uses critical race theory (CRT) to analyze two stories about racial microaggressions from Where are you from?: Short stories about being Asian in America, the graphic novel written and illustrated by Talitha Angelica (Angel) Acaylar Trazo in fulfillment of her undergraduate honors thesis. Where are you from? visually historicizes the counter-stories of 48 Asian and Asian American students at a predominantly white undergraduate institution. In this article, we examine two stories of microaggressions in relation to institutional and structural racism and the intersections of race, gender, and power dynamics between white faculty and Asian female students. Furthermore, we propose that the graphic novel functions as a counter-space where counter-stories, otherwise overlooked or silenced by the institution, can exist, as well as a means by which two angry Asian girls voice resistance to racism on a predominantly-white campus.
Global Perspectives on Microaggressions in Higher Education: Understanding and Combatting Covert Violence, 2022
Trazo, A., & Kim, W. (2022). “Crazy Rich Asian International Students: The Model Minority Myth an... more Trazo, A., & Kim, W. (2022). “Crazy Rich Asian International Students: The Model Minority Myth and Microaggressions Between Asian International and Asian American Students in Higher Education.” In C. Cho. (Ed.). Global Perspectives on Microaggressions in Higher Education: Understanding and Combatting Covert Violence. Routledge.
In this chapter, we examine microaggressions between Asian international and Asian American students in US higher education, demonstrating how the racialization of Asians as the model minority and the pressures to assimilate into white, hegemonic American society reinforce such microaggressions. While made hypervisible by stereotypes of wealth, Asian international students also face racialization in the US context that portrays them invisible, submissive, and palatable to whiteness. As such, they are subject to microaggressions from their Asian American peers, either critiqued for a submissiveness that characterizes them as subservient to the US social order, or for a hypervisibility which marks them as perpetual foreigners. In perpetuating microaggressions against Asian international students, Asian American students strive to distance themselves from foreignness through intraracial Othering. Asian international students, on the other hand, also perpetuate microaggressions that deem Asian Americans less “American” than whites, thus upholding whiteness as the cultural norm. Underneath the microaggressions described in this chapter lie a destructive model minority myth which works to pit groups both racialized as “model minorities” against each other. Through three stories of microaggressions experienced by the authors, we illuminate the racialization and evolving construction of the model minority myth that enable these incidents to take place.
Thanks for Typing: Remembering Forgotten Women in History, 2021
Kim, W. (2021). Breaking the Silence and Inspiring Activism on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery: ... more Kim, W. (2021). Breaking the Silence and Inspiring Activism on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery: Legacy of Kim Hak-soon (1924-97). In Juliana Dresvina (Ed.). Thanks for Typing: Remembering Forgotten Women in History. Bloomsbury.
This article uses critical race theory (CRT) to analyze two stories about racial microaggressions... more This article uses critical race theory (CRT) to analyze two stories about racial microaggressions from Where are you from?: Short stories about being Asian in America, the graphic novel written and illustrated by Talitha Angelica (Angel) Acaylar Trazo in fulfillment of her undergraduate honors thesis. Where are you from? visually historicizes the counter-stories of 48 Asian and Asian American students at a predominantly white undergraduate institution. In this article, we examine two stories of microaggressions in relation to institutional and structural racism and the intersections of race, gender, and power dynamics between white faculty and Asian female students. Furthermore, we propose that the graphic novel functions as a counter-space where counter-stories, otherwise overlooked or silenced by the institution, can exist, as well as a means by which two angry Asian girls voice resistance to racism on a predominantly-white campus.
Global Perspectives on Microaggressions in Higher Education: Understanding and Combatting Covert Violence, 2022
Trazo, A., & Kim, W. (2022). “Crazy Rich Asian International Students: The Model Minority Myth an... more Trazo, A., & Kim, W. (2022). “Crazy Rich Asian International Students: The Model Minority Myth and Microaggressions Between Asian International and Asian American Students in Higher Education.” In C. Cho. (Ed.). Global Perspectives on Microaggressions in Higher Education: Understanding and Combatting Covert Violence. Routledge.
In this chapter, we examine microaggressions between Asian international and Asian American students in US higher education, demonstrating how the racialization of Asians as the model minority and the pressures to assimilate into white, hegemonic American society reinforce such microaggressions. While made hypervisible by stereotypes of wealth, Asian international students also face racialization in the US context that portrays them invisible, submissive, and palatable to whiteness. As such, they are subject to microaggressions from their Asian American peers, either critiqued for a submissiveness that characterizes them as subservient to the US social order, or for a hypervisibility which marks them as perpetual foreigners. In perpetuating microaggressions against Asian international students, Asian American students strive to distance themselves from foreignness through intraracial Othering. Asian international students, on the other hand, also perpetuate microaggressions that deem Asian Americans less “American” than whites, thus upholding whiteness as the cultural norm. Underneath the microaggressions described in this chapter lie a destructive model minority myth which works to pit groups both racialized as “model minorities” against each other. Through three stories of microaggressions experienced by the authors, we illuminate the racialization and evolving construction of the model minority myth that enable these incidents to take place.
Thanks for Typing: Remembering Forgotten Women in History, 2021
Kim, W. (2021). Breaking the Silence and Inspiring Activism on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery: ... more Kim, W. (2021). Breaking the Silence and Inspiring Activism on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery: Legacy of Kim Hak-soon (1924-97). In Juliana Dresvina (Ed.). Thanks for Typing: Remembering Forgotten Women in History. Bloomsbury.
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In this chapter, we examine microaggressions between Asian international and Asian American students in US higher education, demonstrating how the racialization of Asians as the model minority and the pressures to assimilate into white, hegemonic American society reinforce such microaggressions. While made hypervisible by stereotypes of wealth, Asian international students also face racialization in the US context that portrays them invisible, submissive, and palatable to whiteness. As such, they are subject to microaggressions from their Asian American peers, either critiqued for a submissiveness that characterizes them as subservient to the US social order, or for a hypervisibility which marks them as perpetual foreigners. In perpetuating microaggressions against Asian international students, Asian American students strive to distance themselves from foreignness through intraracial Othering. Asian international students, on the other hand, also perpetuate microaggressions that deem Asian Americans less “American” than whites, thus upholding whiteness as the cultural norm. Underneath the microaggressions described in this chapter lie a destructive model minority myth which works to pit groups both racialized as “model minorities” against each other. Through three stories of microaggressions experienced by the authors, we illuminate the racialization and evolving construction of the model minority myth that enable these incidents to take place.
otherwise overlooked or silenced by the institution, can exist, as well as a means by which two angry Asian girls voice resistance to racism on a predominantly-white campus.
In this chapter, we examine microaggressions between Asian international and Asian American students in US higher education, demonstrating how the racialization of Asians as the model minority and the pressures to assimilate into white, hegemonic American society reinforce such microaggressions. While made hypervisible by stereotypes of wealth, Asian international students also face racialization in the US context that portrays them invisible, submissive, and palatable to whiteness. As such, they are subject to microaggressions from their Asian American peers, either critiqued for a submissiveness that characterizes them as subservient to the US social order, or for a hypervisibility which marks them as perpetual foreigners. In perpetuating microaggressions against Asian international students, Asian American students strive to distance themselves from foreignness through intraracial Othering. Asian international students, on the other hand, also perpetuate microaggressions that deem Asian Americans less “American” than whites, thus upholding whiteness as the cultural norm. Underneath the microaggressions described in this chapter lie a destructive model minority myth which works to pit groups both racialized as “model minorities” against each other. Through three stories of microaggressions experienced by the authors, we illuminate the racialization and evolving construction of the model minority myth that enable these incidents to take place.