“Hmong That Could Fit Into All of Asia”: The Power of Hmong Storytelling in Service-Learning Projects

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Author(s): H. Jordan Landry (University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, USA)and Mai Nhia Xiong (University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, USA)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 18
Source title: Culturally Engaging Service-Learning With Diverse Communities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Omobolade O. Delano-Oriaran (St. Norbert College, USA), Marguerite W. Penick-Parks (University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, USA)and Suzanne Fondrie (University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2900-2.ch007

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Gender & Diversity / Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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Service-learning projects that both engage the Hmong community and make oral storytelling a component of the projects have the potential to create transformative social change. Currently, images of the Hmong in the media as well as scholarship written by people of non-Hmong ethnicity tend to re-affirm stereotypes both of refugees and people who speak languages other than English. The Hmong community has an investment in both preserving its rich culture, history and traditions and educating about these. The storytelling that emerges in service learning projects focused on the Hmong are powerful counterpoints to the often violent and destructive discourse current in the contemporary moment about refugees, immigrants and speakers of languages other than English.

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