Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Education Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education

Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology Publications

Series

2005

Articles 1 - 1 of 1

Full-Text Articles in Education

Making Experience Meaningful:
 Interpreting Chinese Canadian Women's Personal Encounters With Racism, Jane S. Ku Jan 2005

Making Experience Meaningful:
 Interpreting Chinese Canadian Women's Personal Encounters With Racism, Jane S. Ku

Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology Publications

Using Philomena Essed's theory on everyday racism, this paper explores how Chinese Canadian women interpret racism. It argues that differences in interpretation can be explained by examining personal biographies that attend to subjective experience and social context, and from which implications for anti-racist feminist epistemology can be drawn.