ABSTRACT
In this essay, I begin by sharing my pre-US and post-US positionalities, the latter of which is more vulnerable than the former. I then articulate an experience of racism that occurred in my class, a very large introductory-level and lecture-heavy art history/appreciation course for 100 non-art major students in higher education. This incident was more direct than any of the other numerous microaggressions I have encountered as a nonnative Asian woman of color living and working as an art educator in the United States. Rather than simply avoiding the situation or pretending that nothing happened, I have since implemented pedagogical practices, such as a thematic approach to juxtapose historical art with conceptually critical contemporary art along with decolonial worldview, in order to help students to be aware of how their perspectives and positions may have been implicated in a colonial worldview. Through new pedagogical practices, I hope to prevent further racist incidents.
