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Mariam Rashid

Bio: Mariam Rashid is an academic researcher from University of Massachusetts Amherst. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poetics. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 2 citations.
Topics: Poetics

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TL;DR: The authors extended a lens of postcolonial m/Othering through poetic auto-ethnography to open up possibilities in inquiry, and drew on the conceptualization of rememory to w...
Abstract: To open up possibilities in inquiry, the authors write in a manner that extends a lens of postcolonial m/Othering through poetic autoethnography. They draw on the conceptualization of rememory to w...

6 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the economic, political, and legal struggles of Filipinos in the United States are discussed, focusing on the economic and legal barriers that Filipinos confronted during the first three decades of the century.
Abstract: This book begins with the creation of the colony of the Philippines in 1898 and ends with national independence in 1946. However, the book does not center upon either; instead, it focuses on the economic, political, and legal struggles of Filipino immigrants in the United States. The book is organized chronologically, although there is some overlap of periods across chapters. The first chapter deals with the racial politics of empire and the establishment of the Philippines as a colony of the United States. This lays the groundwork for the analysis of the political economy of Filipino immigration (1900s–1920s) in the second chapter. The next chapter deals more specifically with social and legal barriers that Filipinos confronted during the first three decades of the century. Chapter Four is a study of violence directed against Filipinos in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Finally, last two chapters deal with the political negotiations for independence, the participation of Filipinos in the Second World War, and the consequences for immigrants in the United States. The colonization of the Philippines resulted in the creation of a new legal category: the U.S. national, that is, those persons owing allegiance to the United States because they were at the same time citizens of one of its colonies. However ‘‘nationals’’ were not full-fledged citizens of the United States, and this initially led to considerable confusion about their rights to entry and to work. This ambiguous political status set the stage for the immigration of Filipinos who came to work in agri-business, first in Hawaii and then to the western and southwestern states. Later, Filipinos would also find work in service and industrial sectors. The first generation of Filipino immigrants struggled for and soon (in 1906) attained the right, as U.S. nationals, to unlimited entry into the United States. The author skillfully shows how Filipinos were clearly agents, and not merely victims, in this process: they were active in both class struggles, to obtain better wages and conditions, and legal battles, to achieve right of entry into the United States. Even though they gained the right to unrestricted immigration, Filipinos confronted other legal barriers regarding interracial marriage, property rights, and naturalization as U.S. citizens. In addition, local governments also attempted to police the color line by passing laws enforcing social segregation. In general, the legal issues were complicated by two principal factors. First, the laws were not always created with Filipinos in mind and the existing racial categories did not easily apply. Indeed, part of the strategy of Filipinos was to argue that they were outside of the laws that were erected explicitly against Afro-Americans, Mexicans, and ‘‘Asiatics,’’ namely, Chinese and Japanese. Second, the interests of local ‘‘nativists’’ often conflicted with those in agribusiness or the federal government. On the one hand, the nativists sought to preserve white privilege, dominance, and the color line; they opposed Filipino immigration. On the other hand, agricultural enterprises were in favor of Filipino workers, although they also sought ways to divide and conquer them whenever workers organized and pressed for better working conditions. In addition, the federal government was obliged to concede some degree of legal and naturalization rights to Filipinos. In the international sphere, it was not good politics to simply exclude them as ‘‘aliens’’ in U.S. society. Especially interesting is the analysis of the diverse and often contradictory positions of the local nativists in towns, counties, and states, the economic interests of agribusiness in the region, and the laws and policies of the federal government. In addition, the full range of actions and strategies of Filipinos on different fronts is fully explained.

7 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present a series of plateaus to challenge the constraints of academic writing and signal methodological openings in collective restorying in educational research, theory, and practice.
Abstract: Abstract Digital storytelling as part of study creates an opening for reworking ideas. It marks an instance of recognition to access alternative ways of knowing, thinking, and doing. Guided by radical black studies and decolonizing methodologies, the authors draw on insights from digital storytelling to extend current understandings of educational research, theory, and practice. The connections across five digital stories are highlighted through a retrospective analysis of educational journeys to and beyond doctoral study. The digital stories are presented in a series of plateaus to (1) challenge the constraints of academic writing and (2) signal methodological openings in collective restorying. To that end, the authors unravel processes of becoming, trouble the pedagogical encounters in their work, and push for otherwise possibilities to make room for the not-yet.

3 citations

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TL;DR: The authors consider climate displacement and community placement through multiple layers within present day ecologies, narrative texts, and longer views of time, and apply both archival stories and current research to think beyond plantation logics, with river ecosystems and wetlands, extending concepts of climate change education.
Abstract: Abstract What emerges when climate-related displacement is positioned in conversation within the relational practices of collective resistance and oral tradition? In this article, I consider climate displacement and community placement through multiple layers within present day ecologies, narrative texts, and longer views of time. Situated within Black ecologies, I apply both archival stories and current research to think beyond plantation logics, with river ecosystems and wetlands, extending concepts of climate change education. The article is layered in place and time through the writing of Louisiana author Ernest Gaines, centering Black epistemologies, oral traditions, and storied pedagogies of place. Relating the ecological roles and intimacies of water in and beyond the colonizing US settler state might unsettle current universalized notions of displacement and climate change education.

1 citations

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Alamat Florist1
01 Jan 2023
TL;DR: Three dimensions of youth poetry that offer insight into literacies and languages of civic engagement and social justice are pedagogy and the politics of poetry, participatory cultures and new media literacies, and youth media and translocal practices as mentioned in this paper .
Abstract: Three dimensions of youth poetry that offer insight into literacies and languages of civic engagement and social justice are (a) pedagogy and the politics of poetry, (b) participatory cultures and new media literacies, and (c) youth media and translocal practices. Also included in the discussion are lessons that pertain to trauma-informed literacies and new materialist approaches in youth studies. Growing interests in youth poetry for the past 25 years point to research and pedagogical possibilities that consider civic literacies, speculative education, and multimodality, including the use of critical research methodologies in further shaping literacy studies and the field of education.