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"Asians for Black Lives, Not Asians for Asians": Building Southeast Asian American and Black Solidarity.

This paper explores the possibilities and challenges of building cross‐racial solidarity between Southeast Asian American and Black communities through an ethnographic account of a community‐based educational space (CBES) working with low‐income Southeast Asian American and Black youth. CBESs can pl...

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Published in:Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 405 - 422
Main Authors: Lee, Stacey J., Xiong, Choua P., Pheng, Linda M., Neng Vang, Mai
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2020
Subjects:
Asian Americans
Black people
Racism
Coalitions
Ethnology
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:This paper explores the possibilities and challenges of building cross‐racial solidarity between Southeast Asian American and Black communities through an ethnographic account of a community‐based educational space (CBES) working with low‐income Southeast Asian American and Black youth. CBESs can play a unique role in teaching youth to engage in anti‐racist work and building cross‐racial coalitions. We argue that attention to challenging anti‐Blackness is central to cross‐racial coalitions but should also recognize the distinct nature of anti‐Asian racism.