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

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, alien...

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Main Author:	Roselyn Banda
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Journal of International Students 2018-01-01
Series:	Journal of International Students
Subjects:	African women transnational feminism education culture culture shock self-identity erasure stereotype
Online Access:	https://jistudents.org/8-1/

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spelling	doaj-b6920c463aad4de5811f9571f4c87fcf2020-11-25T01:31:39ZengJournal of International StudentsJournal of International Students2162-31042166-37502018-01-0181Changing the Things I Cannot Accept: My African Experience of A U.S. ClassroomRoselyn Banda0Miami University,United StatesThis 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.https://jistudents.org/8-1/African womentransnational feminismeducationcultureculture shockself-identityerasurestereotype
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title_short	Changing the Things I Cannot Accept: My African Experience of A U.S. Classroom
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description	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.
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Changing the Things I Cannot Accept: My African Experience of A U.S. Classroom

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