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An Imaginary* Interview With A Philippines Collections Museum Donor, Camille Ungco Nov 2022

An Imaginary* Interview With A Philippines Collections Museum Donor, Camille Ungco

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Ontological distance is the dehumanization that emerges from uninterrogated coloniality between colonized subjects and the oppressive systems. This distancing has occurred in the histories of U.S. teachers both domestic-based and abroad, especially in Southeast Asia. In Steinbock-Pratt’s (2019) historiography on the relationships between early 1900s U.S. teachers and their Filipinx students, ontological distance was “The crux of the colonial relationship was intimacy marked by closeness without understanding, suasion backed by violence, and affection bounded by white and American supremacy” (Steinbock-Pratt, 2019, p. 214). This dehumanizing psychological or ontological distance existed during U.S. colonial regimes abroad, specifically in Southeast Asia and …


Three Poems: “My Mother Is A Hungry Ghost,” “Lok-Yeay,” And “My Heart Is A Chest Of Drawers”, Bunkong Tuon Oct 2022

Three Poems: “My Mother Is A Hungry Ghost,” “Lok-Yeay,” And “My Heart Is A Chest Of Drawers”, Bunkong Tuon

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Three Poems: “My Mother is a Hungry Ghost,” “Lok-Yeay,” and “My Heart is a Chest of Drawers”


Three Poems: “Same Identity, Different Lives,” “Into Obscurity,” And “Community”, Hyleigh Pan Oct 2022

Three Poems: “Same Identity, Different Lives,” “Into Obscurity,” And “Community”, Hyleigh Pan

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Three Poems: “Same Identity, Different Lives,” “Into Obscurity,” and “Community”


#34 Luk Lao, Victoria Gill Apr 2022

#34 Luk Lao, Victoria Gill

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

This bilingual poem, using Lao (Isaan dialect) and English, narrates how her genocide survivor, Lao refugee mother uses language as a form of resistance and as a cultural legacy to pass on to her first-generation American born children.


Hmong Parent Day/Hnub Txhawb Nqa Niam Txiv: Implementing Psychosociocultural Educational Programming To Honor Rau Siab, Pa Her, Alberta M. Gloria, Shee Yee Chang, Pahoua Thao Jan 2022

Hmong Parent Day/Hnub Txhawb Nqa Niam Txiv: Implementing Psychosociocultural Educational Programming To Honor Rau Siab, Pa Her, Alberta M. Gloria, Shee Yee Chang, Pahoua Thao

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

This paper describes the interrelated conceptual activities that took a Psychosociocultural (PSC) approach to direct best practices, interactions, and processes to implement HMong Parent Days effectively. The purpose of HMong Parent Day/ Hnub Txhawb Nqa Niam Txiv, a culturally-centered community-focused intervention, was to bring HMong parents onto a midwestern predominantly White university campus for a day of college knowledge. The day honored HMong parents' support of their children into and through higher education via the cultural value of rau siab (hard work). Three levels of learning that emergent as new knowledge for HMong parents were highlighted and discussed relative to …