Mashin’ Up Stratified Blackness: Unpacking the Communal Responsibility of Black International/Immigrant Academics to Black American Academics

Greener grass or the mirage of belonging: How Chinese traditional norms impact the identity and (re)acculturation of Chinese international students

This qualitative study explores how traditional sociocultural norms influence the transnational mobility, identity trajectories, and (re)acculturation experiences of Chinese international students with a pro-host-nation cultural identity. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 14 Chinese international student returnees,...

Black Joy, Critical Race Consciousness, and Black Cultural Capital: A Theoretical Triunity

The New Racial Regime: Transnational Trajectories of Racial Oppression and Resistance

ABSTRACT This article convenes a transnational dialogue on The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy by bringing together three scholars from Australia, France, and the United States – Debbie Bargallie, Houria Bouteldja, and Too Black – to reflect on the contemporary relevance of Alana Lentin’s contribut...

Made in Community: Black Counterspaces, Critical Consciousness, and the Cultivation of Progressive Masculinities

Drawing on narrative inquiry to amplify participants’ voices, this study examines how progressive Black masculinities are cultivated among Black undergraduate men at a predominantly White institution. Drawing on year-long fieldwork at a large Midwestern university, biweekly interviews, participant observation, and arti...

Settler-colonial entanglements: Using Par/Des(i) to understand Black and Racialized international student experiences in Canada

This scholarly paper discusses the complex positioning of Black and Racialized international students (BRIS) in Canada, both as marginalized bodies and complicit in perpetuating settler colonialism. It delves into the paradoxical role these students play within the framework of Canadian higher education, which is deepl...

Untold mourning: The epistemology of naming and grieving the loss of identities

This paper explores the epistemology of mourning through the lens of two Asian American scholars pursuing doctoral degrees at a Midwestern university. We examine how racialization in Midwestern educational institutions reflects a broader historical and cultural distancing from Vietnamese immigrants and refugees, despit...