Keywords
Korean American students, identity, education, Bakhtin
Abstract
Korean American students experience invisibility and silence as their culture and presence remain outwardly invisible in the mainstream culture of US high schools. This is further exacerbated by the silent response of the dominant population of the school towards these issues. Yet, to an extent, Korean American students find a sense of comfort within that invisibility; less visibility allows more silence and thus more privacy. This qualitative in-depth interview study focuses on developing understandings of Korean American students’ perceptions and negotiations of education in suburban American schools, specifically through the perceptions of two Korean American female students. When viewed through Bakhtinian perspectives of silence, this invisibility becomes prominent, lending insight into the ways invisibility and silence are both seen as problematic and openly cultivated by these students.
Original Publication Citation
“A Silence That Wants to be Heard: Korean American Students in Dialogue with Invisibility.” Race, Ethnicity and Education 17.2 (2014): 1-22. (with Hye Young Park and Bob Fecho; first published online in 2013)
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Coombs, Dawan; Park, Hye-Young; and Fecho, Bob, "A Silence That Wants to be Heard: Suburban Korean American Students in Dialogue with Invisibility" (2014). Faculty Publications. 9609.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/9609
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Race, Ethnicity and Education
Language
English
College
Humanities
Department
English
Copyright Status
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