Assistant Professor Josephine H. Pham served as co-author on “‘I’ll walk out if you walk out’: A comic on how students of color utilize racial micropolitical literacy in their everyday lives,” in the Occasional Paper Series. In collaboration with Angel Trazo, an artist and Ph.D. candidate in cultural studies at UC Davis, their publication, in comic form, illustrates the inventive ways youth of color co-create educational possibilities for racially just futures in everyday classroom life, and how teachers can leverage youth practices to expand collective actions and imaginations for social transformation.
Pham also co-authored “Trung’s Ethnic Studies Pedagogy: The Possibilities and Struggles of Teaching Ethnic Studies in K-12 Schools,” published in Ethnic Studies Pedagogies Journal. As a result of community organizing efforts and California Assembly Bill 101, students are required to take an ethnic studies course as a high school graduation requirement. Based on themes from a study of teachers of color’s day-to-day professional experiences in the context of education reform, Pham and artivist Esther Sing-Yu Ho share the story of one teacher’s experience.