Full Description
Stories and personal narratives are powerful tools for engaging in self-reflection and application of critical theory in higher educational contexts. This edited text centers "name stories" as a vehicle to promote readers' understanding of social identity, oppression, and intersectionality in a variety of educational contexts from residence halls and classrooms to faculty development workshops and executive leadership board rooms. The contributors in this volume reveal how names may serve as entry points through which to foster learning and facilitate conversations about identity, power, privilege, and systems of oppression. Through an intersectional perspective, chapter authors reveal interlocking systems of oppression in education while also providing recommendations, lessons learned, reflection questions, and calls to action for those working to transform and advance equity-minded campus climates.
This unique volume is for educators at colleges and universities doing equity work, seeking ways to initiate, facilitate, and maintain rich conversations about identity.
Contents
1: Centering Stories of Our Names and Systems of Oppression Part One: Explorations of Names in Teaching 2. Name Stories as Narrative Strategies for Asian American Advocacy in an AANAPISI Context 3. How Names, Titles and Pronouns Can Promote Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education: The Power of Cabbagestalks, Professor Dragon Flames, and Ze 4. Reclaiming My Name: Chronicles of a Latina Immigrant 5. From Acts of Erasure to New Beginnings: Name Narratives as a Pedagogical Tool for Praxis Part Two: Examining Names for Student Affairs Practice 6. The Unspoken Truth: Exploring the Racist Narrative that "Black-Sounding" Names are Ghetto 7. My Name as a Weapon 8. Naming My Body: A Hidden Ism 9. Cultural Hegemony and Its Impact on People of Color in Higher Education in the United States 10. My Name, My Scarlet Letter Part Three: Engaging Research to Explore Names 11. Voicing Names, Naming Voices: (Re)Clamation by Southeast Asian American Women in Higher Education 12. Gender Non-Conformance and the Experience of Names: "My Name is Kim" 13. Engaging Name Stories and The Trauma-Resilience-Critical Consciousness Model within Curriculum
