Power of stories: What Stories Chinese Immigrant Parents Want To Tell Their Children

September 11, 2021 - 02:30 pm

This event was inspried by an article by Dr. Yosso about building community cultural wealth. In the article, she discusses six forms of cultural capital that student of color experience college from an appreciative standpoint: aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistance.

In this event, we want to use storytelling as a tool to invite local first-generation Chinese immigrants to share their stories about:
  • For our children growing up in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural environment as a immigration child, are those unique experience become capital of our children? If yes, how? If not, why?
  • Share your immigration story and do you think this is part of our community wealth? How do we make it familial wealth and community wealth?
  • What are the potential challenges for children learn about culture from original countries? Are there are language barriers too? What can we do to increase the linguistic capital for our children?
  • If we are having a community archive for preserving our stories and culture, what do you put in this archive?
  • How do we want our children to contribute to the AntiAsianHateMovement now and in the future? What can we do to help them as a community?

Event Details

Virtual Event
Discussion/Community Forum, Virtual

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