“This is why nobody knows who you are:” (Counter)Stories of Southeast Asian Americans in the Midwest

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1 As the focus of this manuscript is on Asian Americans, AAPI will only be used in citation and when referring to content in which Asian American is aggregated with that of Pacific Islanders (e.g., data).

2 Burma was named by nineteenth century British colonizers after the predominant ethnic group, the Burmans. In 1989, the ruling military junta changed the official name to Myanmar. As the junta was viewed by many as an oppressive and illegitimate regime, whether one calls the country Myanmar or Burma is often politically motivated (Clymer, 2016). In this manuscript, Burma reflects the participants’ exclusive use of this name in reference to the country of their birth.

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Noreen Naseem Rodríguez

Noreen Naseem Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Elementary Social Studies in the School of Education at Iowa State University. Her research interests include educators of color, culturally sustaining pedagogies, racial literacy, the teaching of difficult histories, and critical uses of diverse children’s literature. She was the recipient of the 2017 Larry Metcalf Dissertation Award from the National Council of the Social Studies and the 2019 Early Career Award from the Children’s Literature Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English.