Changing the Things I Cannot Accept: My African Experience of a U.S. Classroom

Autor/in	Banda, Roselyn
Titel	Changing the Things I Cannot Accept: My African Experience of a U.S. Classroom
Quelle	In: Journal of International Students, 8 (2018) 1, S.488-495 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2162-3104
Schlagwörter	Females; Feminism; Foreign Countries; Blacks; College Students; Foreign Students; Universities; Personal Narratives; Cultural Influences; Africa; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Feminismus; Ausland; Black person; Schwarzer; Collegestudent; University; Universität; Erlebniserzählung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Afrika; USA
Abstract	This article outlines the impact of cultural shock and my way of overcoming it as I migrated to the U.S. as an international student. Often-times, even in academia, where we learn to question and look at things from multiple angles, we essentialize subject positions and as a result silence, alienate, and erase many people. Through the use of narrative, I am giving voice to my own struggles with silence and erasure inside of academia in the hopes that other scholars will consider their own complicity in this process and perhaps expand their own thinking and curriculum choices for the courses they teach. In addition, I hope to create space to build solidarity across difference both in and outside of the university. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01