Counter-Storytelling

The Oregon Immigration ExperienceThe Oregon Immigration Experience

By Arturo Lomeli & Travis Reiman

Principals, Hillsboro School District

Presentation Overview

• Define Dominant Narrative and Counter Story

• Provide National Example

• Provide Local Example

• Provide Characteristics of Counter Story: • Provide Characteristics of Counter Story:

“The How To”

Immigration:

The Dominant Narrative

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0koR7Mn5s

Immigration:

The Counter Story

The Bracero Timeline

Oregon Forests:

A Counter-StoryA Counter-Story

By Travis Reiman

Principal, W.L. Henry Elementary School

Hillsboro, OR

Raíces en Oregon/Oregon Roots

http://www.zazzle.com/hunting_horse_daughters_indian_family_1908_poster-228376974371757980

Raíces en Oregon/Oregon Roots

Raíces en Oregon/Oregon Roots

http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/nov2008/seattle-chinese-settlement.html

Raíces en Oregon/Oregon Roots

http://cllas.uoregon.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Latino_Roots_booklet.pdf

http://cllas.uoregon.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Latino_Roots_booklet.pdf

Farm Workers

CampesinosCampesinos

http://filmnorthflorida.com/photos/location/Hollandtown:-Holland-Farm:-Butterbean-Harvest

Leñadores

Loggers

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What story do you

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Reforestation Reforestation

Reforestación

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Elements of a counter-story

• Three types: • personal

• other people’s

• composite

• Connect our lived experience with the experience of “others”

• Connect our lived experience with the experience of “others”

• Do not assume to speak for the experiences of others

• Told in opposition to majoritarian narratives which privilege Anglos, men, the middle and/or upper classes

• Expose dominant racial ideologies

• Facilitate social, political, and cultural cohesion

Source: Merriweather Hunn, Lisa R. et al. Who Can Speak for Whom? Using Counter-Storytelling to

Challenge Racial Hegemony p.244-250