Failure to Be a “Real American”? → Challenging Failure: An Impetus to Shape Scholarship and Teaching
Abstract
The author reflects on personal experiences, highlighting vignettes of her perceived “failure to be a ‘real American,’” and recounts these stories through her own voice. With the hopes that her journey might inspire, inflame empathic frustrations with an inegalitarian status quo, and remind others of how important it is for us to participate in fighting for justice, she shares her experiences and developing understandings as she has learned to embrace more counterhegemonic scholarship and practices. She describes how her childhood experiences and daily life experiences as an adult have shaped her work as a researcher and teacher of art education. The author supports these discussions with a review of key concepts from postcolonial theory, new racism, and multicultural education theory, to inform the journey.
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