Christopher Hu
@MrChristopherHu
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assistant professor @UofAlabama | PhD @UVAEdu | ethnographer studying race, immigration, and education
Charlottesville, VA
Joined August 2022
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Excited to share a new article in Race Ethnicity and Education! I am particularly interested in understanding the complex racialized position of Asian Americans in the U.S. power structure. (1/x) https://t.co/K5eEFkuHON
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Asian Americans are racialized into a highly complex and somewhat paradoxical position in the U.S. racial matrix. Drawing on interviews with parents at highly selective public magnet schools, this ...
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not only as a cognitive process but a culturally situated, embodied, and multimodal process. Read it here:
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In this essay, we consider recent narratives in the science of brain development under poverty in relation to the older idea of the culture of poverty. We argue...
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specifically focused on the supposed lack of linguistic stimulation and "parental quality," and this constitutes a resurrected and even more powerful form of old culture of poverty ideas. We hope this piece pushes us to think about learning...
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✅New piece out in @ERjournal_AERA: Our essay is a critique of the discourses emerging from developments in brain science and educational neuroscience regarding children living in poverty. We argue that there's a broad discourse of cultural deficit...
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Big day in the Hu house! 10 years ago, my wife and I graduated from undergrad. Today, we did it again! #UVA25
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...I can't shake the feeling of being somewhat sad too, knowing that this could be my final year in academia (considering the state of higher education).
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Excited* to say that I was awarded the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowship in support of my dissertation, which examines a highly educated Chinese community in the white affluent suburbs. *While I am happy about this news...
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@ChrisChangBacon If anyone wants a copy, just let me know!
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Also, shout out to @ChrisChangBacon, the initial draft of this paper originated in his discourse analysis course I took last year. I'm really proud of this article. Now, I'm ready to retire 😅 (end)
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I had an amazing experience in the revision process. A reviewer was so kind and frankly inspirational, encouraging me to completely reframe and rewrite my initial idea. I was so close to throwing this in the trash, but this reviewer convinced me otherwise. (4/x)
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I show how the model minority myth is used as a discursive racial weapon while perpetual foreigner discourse positions Asian Americans as competitive threats with inferior parenting practices. (3/x)
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Using micro-critical discourse analysis, I examine how parents of children who attend highly selective public high schools (where Asian Americans are overrepresented) mobilize the racializing discourses of model minority and perpetual foreigner. (2/x)
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🚨‼️My first article is out!‼️🚨 The central motivating question for this article is, does social foundations/educational studies have anything important or valuable to offer teacher education? https://t.co/bypqHkUIVC
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The social foundations of education (SFE), an interdisciplinary educational field of study, occupies a tenuous position in university-based schools of education. In the era of teacher professionali...
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Who knew that a message from an editor could make you weep...😂
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled today in favor of Students for Fair Admissions in two closely watched cases, ending race-conscious admissions at all colleges that use the practice nationwide. This is a developing story, and our paywall has been dropped:
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The conservative majority declared the practice discriminatory and illegal, effectively forcing colleges to stop using race as a factor in admissions.
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#SCOTUS rulings at 10 ET. 10 left: 2x affirmative action; 2x student loans; "Independent state legislature"; Personal JX over out-of-state businesses; Workplace religious accommodations; Scope of "true threats"; Same-sex marriage website refusal; Trademark law's foreign scope.
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Major network outage @UVA! Looks like I’ll have to take the day off.
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Why is @Amtrak terrible? First train experience was garbage. An hour longer both ways!
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Reading Cedric Robinson for the first time..."Socialist society - a social order which displays no classes, no class struggle and therefore no history - reflects a kind of apocalyptic messianism" (An Anthropology of Marxism, p. 7) 👏
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