The protests during the summer of 2020 were an awakening for many people to the realities of systemic racism. Music education had a full-blown reckoning with the insidious ways racism manifests in the profession. One way that systemic racism manifests in individual classrooms and programs, and one not always easily identified, is cultural…

The article critiques two cases of cultural appropriations and explores how educators can pedagogically counter practices that normalize cultural appropriations. By examining the visual representations of Cinco de Mayo and Sherpa communities, the article illustrates how cultural appropriation often takes place through marketplace and race-neutral…

Asian American Rhetoric and Representation was a graduate-level course taught at Virginia Tech in 2019. The course overviewed disciplinary conversations and concerns in and around Asian American rhetorical studies over time, with a focus on the affordances of Asian American rhetorical theory for the study of rhetoric and writing more broadly.…

Teachers' social identities are an integral part of their professional identities. The present study explores Asian American teachers' performances of racial/ethnic identities and pedagogical practices in the classroom. The author uses a performance framework to understand how Asian American teachers both reify and resist stereotypes through the…

This article describes a study that examined the portrayal of East and Southeast Asian immigrant children and their families in children's picturebooks, focusing on their racialized and minoritized experiences. The authors' analysis included a sample of 39 picturebooks written in English and published in the United States between 1993 and 2022.…

This critical ethnography highlights an ongoing research partnership between two Indigenous studies scholars and their effort to prepare outdoor educators to support Indigenous students more effectively in their programs. After a listening session at the Oregon Indian Education Association annual conference where Indigenous educators and community…

Even though significant progress has been made on raising awareness about equity and diversity issues in science education in the last two decades, the current push to address the Next Generation Science Standards' (NGSS) emphasis on integrating engineering and scientific practices has opened up new pitfalls. Here, I describe seven of the most…

Black students face hyper-disciplining and high levels of social control when they enter American schools. The cultural mismatch hypothesis attempts to explain this hyper-disciplining by arguing that the mostly White teaching force misinterprets the attitudes and behaviors of Black students, which leads to their hyper-disciplining. Utilizing a…

This study draws on data collected from Chinese language textbooks to investigate the ways in which ethnic minority cultures and languages are represented in primary school textbooks in China. Drawing on the methods of thematic and comparative analysis, we specifically analyse how the representation of ethnic minorities in Chinese textbooks has…

This paper uses a critical multicultural, constructivist approach to examine how the Chinese government represents minority cultures in its official discourse. Although at an abstract level the government acknowledges the contributions of minority cultures to society, our findings show a mismatched picture in terms of minority representation.…

In recent years, the United States and Western world experienced rises in nationalism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, and anti-immigrant racism, with heightened awareness of these issues in the wake of the 2016 United States presidential election. In this article, I explore the impacts of the political climate on preservice music teachers' field…

Growing polarization in European societies has changed not only political landscapes but also public debates about the past, which has, in turn, had an impact on the way history is taught and talked about in schools. This article explores how these trends are experienced by history educators across Europe and asks which issues history educators…

Several studies have related cultural stereotyping to psychological distress in individuals of color (Szymanski & Stewart, 2010). Shavers and Moore (2014) utilized Black feminist concept and examined the lived experiences of Black doctoral students and the part that experience plays in forming perseverance and wellness in doctoral programs.…

The article presents an experience of intercultural dialogue through a class shared among Brazilian students of the "Kaingang" people and history students of Coventry University in the United Kingdom. It is inspired by the proposal of intercultural philosophy that postulates the dialogue between cultures as a method to articulate an…

Administrators, librarians, parents, teachers, and teacher educators need to be familiar with quality multicultural children's literature as a means of helping children develop an understanding of others as well as affirming their own diverse backgrounds. In this study, 31 fictional picture books identified as containing representations of ethnic…