The Sea Change Podcast

E8 - The Asian experience of racist & cultural hierarchies in international schools


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Danau Tanu, author of Growing Up in Transit: The Politics of Belonging at an International School, discusses the Asian experience of racism and cultural hierarchies in international schools and what teachers, school leaders, students, and alumni can do about it. Danau is an anthropologist who spent one year embedded in an international high school in Indonesia where she researched these themes and the nuanced experience of the Asian third culture kid. .

Danau Tanu, PhD, is an anthropologist and the author of Growing Up in Transit: The Politics of Belonging at an International School, the first book on systemic racism in international schools. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and was recently awarded a Japan Foundation Fellowship for postdoctoral research at Waseda University for 2021. Danau is Co-Chair of the FIGT Research Network and co-founder of TCKs of Asia.

You can purchase her book and redeem 25% off by going to her website here: https://www.danautanu.com

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