Dr. Stephanie Han

Month: March 2020

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Dr. Stephanie Han explains polyculturalism

Dr Han explains polyculturalism

A brief intro to the concept of polyculturalism by Dr. Stephanie Han.

I think that people need to understand various frameworks of organization, the concept of Empire, how the nation-state may be understood as rather new in terms of the length of our existence on this planet.

Multiculturalism is best used for administrative purposes within the context of a single nation. Polyculturalism, however, is a more flexible term and may be better applied to our 21st c. life given our awareness of the environment and natural resources. We are bound together on this planet. We need to recognize how and the fluidity of this truth. How do we recognize our multiple identities and the complexity of our lives?

When we understand and apply words to our realities, we can broaden how we speak and think of them. We cannot aspire to what we cannot name.

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PBS Hawaii Long Story Short Interview

Award-winning writer Stephanie Han draws from her life experiences to inform her poetry, fiction and non-fiction, which frequently grapple with identity in multicultural settings. Her childhood was anchored by books, which helped her make sense of others and the world around her. Though her life has taken her around the globe, she now calls Honolulu home, working as a writer and educator.

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Excerpt from Dr. Stephanie Han’s talk “Narrative as Life”

Dr. Stephanie Han speaking

Academy of Creative Media, University of Hawaii

Our lives are narratives—we are the art of narrative, and we must understand, guard, and cultivate our story, as if we do not, we are subject to the narratives that others impose upon us. Those are the narratives of people who are more powerful, who control us through government or money or paperwork or emotions, who want us to be something other than who we are. If we do not stand up for our own story, we become the story of others who do not know, in any intimate way, what it means to be us.