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ERIC Number: EJ1440533
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-2514-5347
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"How Difficult Can It Be?" A Non-Indigenous 'Asian' Australian High School Teacher's "AsianCrit" Autoethnographic Account of Dealing with Racial Injustice
Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, v4 n1 p86-96 2022
Australia's colonial past and subsequent propagation of the White Australia policy in the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 has meant that 'Whiteness' remains central to the national imaginary. Consequently, racial-colonial discourses axiomatically regulate scholarly and societal understandings of racial minorities through two unique but analogous debates -- one focussed on the schism between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples; the other centred around immigration policy and multiculturalism (Curthoys, 2000). In the context of Australian education, there is a slowly developing collection of Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholarship that has addressed and challenged the inequities that pervade the Indigenous student experience (Ford, 2013; Vass, 2014, 2015); however, there has been much less momentum made with other racial minorities. Specifically, the experiences and voices of migrant pre-service and early career teachers from Asian backgrounds like myself, who have become increasingly prevalent in Australian education, remain largely absent from scholarship. In light of this, in this paper I use Asian CRT ("AsianCrit") (Museus & Iftikar, 2013) to present an autoethnographic account of a migrant 'Asian' Australian high school teacher's subjectivities, quests for solidarity and attempts at dealing with racial injustice across a range of White Australian classrooms.
Liverpool John Moores University. Student Life Building, 10 Copperas Hill, Liverpool, L3 5AH, UK. Tel: +44-151-231-4648; Web site: https://openjournals.ljmu.ac.uk/index.php/prism/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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