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Re-membering Culture
2024
Overview
The untold stories of resilience in Hmong American
education Re-membering Culture is a deep
exploration of the intricate dynamics of cultural memory and
education, centering the experiences of Hmong American students and
educators. Arguing that the school, as a product of coloniality,
perpetuates the marginalization and erasure of non-Western
epistemologies, author Bic Ngo sheds light on the subtle yet
impactful process of structured forgetting within the American
education system. This politics of forgetting, in turn, contributes
to the fragmentation of Hmong cultural heritage, identity, and
community.
Based on a high school in an urban center with a considerable
Hmong immigrant community, Ngo's work draws on extensive
ethnographic research with Hmong American community leaders, school
administrators, parents, teachers, staff, and high school students
to understand how they navigate the terrain of Western pedagogy
while attempting to retain and preserve Hmong knowledge systems.
Exploring a range of school experiences, Ngo traverses students'
challenges in balancing school with family life and the everyday
cultural racism encountered in the classroom as well as grassroots
efforts to preserve culture, including the establishment of a Hmong
Cultural Club.
Highlighting these experiences and voices, Ngo provides a
nuanced understanding of the challenges Hmong Americans face within
an assimilationist society while contesting the dominant
anti-immigrant narratives of refugee suffering and poverty. Through
these practices of (re)storytelling, resurgence, and refusal, she
underscores the agency of the Hmong American community,
illuminating how the critical consciousness fostered by
re-membering serves as a powerful tool in confronting white
hegemonic ideologies in education.
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Subject
ISBN
1517910757, 9781517910754, 9781452965246, 1452965242
