Navigating Graduate Education as a First-generation, Hmong American Woman: An Autoethnography

This study highlights the various identities of a Hmong American woman in graduate education by deconstructing the intersectionality of race, gender and culture that influences the way I navigated academia.Through a critical race feminist lens, my autoethnographic research 1042 highlights the diverse stories and experiences of me as a Hmong American woman, and illuminates the struggles and challenges I have encountered in graduate school.Furthermore, I deconstruct the gender and Bell boots racial discourses that also revolve around culture and academia to create space and agency that will illuminate my personal stories as political learning.