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Navigating the Ocean in the SchoolPacific Islanders in the Midst of Empire, Schooling, and Indigeneity

Navigating the Ocean in the SchoolPacific Islanders in the Midst of Empire, Schooling, and... This article engages with practices of ethnographic storytelling to perform a structural critique of US schooling from the perspectives of Pacific Islander students attending a university far from their ancestral homelands. Deploying indigeneity to comprehend how their schooling is meaningfully connected to their histories of imperial colonization and their resistances to it, these students’ specific understandings of the ocean enable them to transform the very school that alienates them and causes them to fail. These students reveal in their stories their consideration of the ocean as a representation and a repository of Pacific Islander cultural practices—such as collective support, mentorship through partnership, and caring for the family and church—that enable them to navigate through the struggles they face as minorities in their school. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions Duke University Press

Navigating the Ocean in the SchoolPacific Islanders in the Midst of Empire, Schooling, and Indigeneity

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Abstract

This article engages with practices of ethnographic storytelling to perform a structural critique of US schooling from the perspectives of Pacific Islander students attending a university far from their ancestral homelands. Deploying indigeneity to comprehend how their schooling is meaningfully connected to their histories of imperial colonization and their resistances to it, these students’ specific understandings of the ocean enable them to transform the very school that alienates them and causes them to fail. These students reveal in their stories their consideration of the ocean as a representation and a repository of Pacific Islander cultural practices—such as collective support, mentorship through partnership, and caring for the family and church—that enable them to navigate through the struggles they face as minorities in their school.

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Published: Feb 1, 2021

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    Diaz, Vicente M.
  • Access to Higher Education and Disadvantaged Young People
    Forsyth, Alasdair; Furlong, Andy
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    Kauanui, Kēhaulani J.
  • On Analogies: Rethinking the Pacific in a Global Context
    Teaiwa, Teresia K.
  • Quick Stats: Seattle Campus
    University of Washington, Office of Academic Data Management
  • To ‘P’ or Not to ‘P’? Marking the Territory between Pacific Islander and Asian American Studies
    Diaz, Vicente M.
  • Access to Higher Education and Disadvantaged Young People
    Forsyth, Alasdair; Furlong, Andy
  • Diasporic Deracination and ‘Off-Island’ Hawaiians
    Kauanui, Kēhaulani J.
  • On Analogies: Rethinking the Pacific in a Global Context
    Teaiwa, Teresia K.
  • Quick Stats: Seattle Campus
    University of Washington, Office of Academic Data Management