Dissertation
COUNTERSTORIES FROM THE CENTER: CONSIDERING ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN IDENTITY WITHIN WRITING CENTER SPACES
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000002389
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/120832
Abstract
Responding to the dearth of research that attends to the experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in writing centers, my dissertation discusses the particular brand of racism that such populations may encounter in these academic spaces. Utilizing counterstory to center discussions of race, particularly as they concern AAPI, I call greater attention to the traumatic racial experiences that accompany such identities. In undertaking this work, I advance three main claims. First, I argue for the necessity of interrogating race outside the black and white binary that dominates writing center scholarship; second, I contend that the model minority myth and foreigner racialization play out in writing center spaces in unique ways that warrant attention; finally, I suggest that counterstories can be used as anti-oppressive tools in writing centers to centralize discussions of race and challenge monolingual “standards” of English.
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- Title
- COUNTERSTORIES FROM THE CENTER: CONSIDERING ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN IDENTITY WITHIN WRITING CENTER SPACES
- Creators
- Sherwin Kawahakui Ranchez Sales
- Contributors
- Patricia Wilde (Advisor)Ashley Boyd (Committee Member)Rory J. Ong (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- English, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 142
- Identifiers
- 99900606651601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation