Critical Connections in Race, Sexuality, and Community: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Student Research
Thursday, Apr 16, 2015 - Thursday, Apr 16, 2015 | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Critical Connections in Race, Sexuality, and Community: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Student Research
Jinoh Ryu (Kahn), Gender and Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Studies
Third Culture Kid (TCK) is a term that refers to “a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents’ culture.” TCKs accompany their parents across national borders and into different societies before they build a coherent sense of cultural identity and “home.” Given their early exposure to multiple norms that may conflict with one another, Third Culture Kids carry a distinct consciousness and multifaceted subjectivity.
My research examines how UC Berkeley students who identify as Asian TCK women interpret and negotiate with their transcultural identities and experiences. I use transnational feminist approach in the intertextual analysis of 15 interviews. The study focuses on how global capitalism, neocolonialism, and neoliberalism as TCKs’ initial agents for highly mobile childhood may have affected their un/conscious cultural identification with or inclination toward (honorary) Whiteness. I also hope to find out how Berkeley politics of and education on diversity and the diverse sociocultural environment of San Francisco have possibly enabled Asian TCK women to reevaluate hegemonic Whiteness and to embrace their unique cultural backgrounds.
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A Qualitative Study on the Intersection of Higher Education and Incarceration in African-American and Latino/a Households