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Lotuses Rising: Fostering Southeast Asian Community Cultural Wealth Through Arts Based Culturally Specific Programming

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: This project explores how Banteay Srei, a community organization in Oakland, California, works with young Southeast Asian American women using arts based and culturally specific programming to make visible the community cultural wealth that exists in this community. Through cooking and telling stories about their elders' refuge and resettlement experiences, the young women gain a better sense of their own history, culture, and identity. This intergenerational project allows participants to learn, feel empowered, and begin to heal. The result is a cookbook for the young women of the organization. While this project and program is not meant to be replicated without consulting with Banteay Srei, the emphasis of this project is on the power of the arts and the importance of a culturally relevant program or education.

Source: USF Scholarship Repository (University of San Francisco)

Author: Rhummanee Hang

Language: English

Topic: Asian American and Pacific Histories

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2396879220

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