Week 3_Wenru Shi_Section 1

Week 3_Wenru Shi_Section 1

This week’s readings are all about Hmong. Hmong is not only a minority group in the U.S. but also a minority in Asian Americans. 

What impresses me the most is that in the reading “Hmong Does Not Mean Free,” the author Mouavangsou strongly described the miseducation of Hmong Americans by relating her own experiences and identity. The author said even though most of the Hmong Americans agree on such negative stereotypes of Hmong male students, the U.S census still presented the exactly opposite way. This phenomenon made me think does that mean the intendancy of heteropatriarchy? 

At the same time, related to the origin of public school system we talked in the class, the misleading U.S. education system is intentionally misleading minorities, to still create a society where white is still the mainstream. Mouavangsou wrote “constructing America as great has been done at the expense of devaluing other cultures.” In the public school system, the mainstream of U.S. will still “unintentionally” devalue, classify other races as “inferior” minorities by showing “we, the white” give you the rights instead of we own right by ourselves. 

The author identified herself not only as an American, but also a Hmong American. When she felt she was still excluded by the Americans(White), she started to call on the action, call on students who are in the system to become awake. 

I believe, more and more students of Hmong Americans, of Asian Americans, of all the minorities in the U.S, are awaking. 

Question:

The underrepresented minorities relate to the intersectionality of race gender and class, while through the binary of Black and White society in the U.S., how do we see the potential problems between each minority groups?

Reference

• Mouavangsou, K. (2016). Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation of Hmong Americans.

• What exactly is intersectionality?[image]. (2016). Retrieved from https://inclusionatwork.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/what-exactly-is-intersectionality/