Injeong Yoon-Ramirez
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Bio
Injeong Yoon-Ramirez is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist-educator, and community organizer whose praxis aims at social transformation. Before she joined CSUSB, she was an endowed Associate Professor of Art Education and an affiliate faculty in Gender Studies at the University of Arkansas. Academically, her work explores antiracist and decolonial arts pedagogy, which is rooted in Critical Race Theory, transnational feminism, and Indigenous critiques on settler colonialism. She recently published a book, Decolonial Arts Praxis: Transnational Pedagogies and Activism in Routledge. The book explores how arts can reveal intersectional forms of oppression, inform critical understandings, and rebuild transnational solidarities. Her works were also published in many academic journals, including Studies in Art Education, Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, International Journal of Education Through Art, and Multicultural Perspectives. Based on her research and activism, she received Emerging CRT Scholar Award from Critical Race Studies in Education Association (2022), Arkansas Higher education Art Educator of the Year award (2021) and was nominated for Emerging Scholar by Diverse Issues in Higher Education (2018). As a part of her community-engaged scholarship, she founded “Entretejer/Interweave Community School” in Springdale, Arkansas in collaboration with local Latinx leaders and non-profit organizations. Entretejer/Interweave is designed to offer a critical and creative learning space for working-class immigrant adults and families.
Education
Ph.D. University of Arizona 2017
Research and Teaching Interests
Selected publications
Yoon-Ramirez, I. & Ramírez, A. I. (2024). Decolonial Arts Praxis: Transnational Pedagogies and Activism. Routledge.
Yoon-Ramirez, I. (2024). Testimonio art in a high school classroom: Cultivating critical race consciousness. In D. Cook & N. Bryan (Eds.) Critical race theory and classroom practice. Routledge.
Bae-Dimitriadis, M. & Yoon-Ramirez, I. (2023). Intersectional Antiracist Art Inquiry Through Asian American Art. Journal of Art Education, 76(1), 23-27.
Yoon-Ramirez, I. (2023). Pitfalls and possibilities of Reciprocal Community Engagement: A Call to the Academy as a Platform for Activism, Visual Arts Research, 49(1), 14-28.
Yoon-Ramirez, I. (2023). Rethinking feelings in anti-racist art pedagogy. In C. Stewart, E. Burke, T. Northington & L. Hochtritt (Eds.), Teaching art with dialogue: Critical conversations in art education (pp. 34-37). Teachers College Press.
Yoon-Ramirez, I. & Ramirez, B. W. (2021). Unsettling settler colonial feelings through contemporary Indigenous art practice. Studies in Art Education, 62(2), 114-129.
Yoon-Ramirez, I. (2021). Walking-Sensing as a decolonial art and pedagogical practice. International Journal of Education through Art, 17(1), 115-133.
Yoon-Ramirez, I. (2021). Inter-Weave: Creating a translanguaging space through community art. Multicultural Perspectives, 23(1), 23-32.
Yoon, I. (2019). Rising above pain: An autoethnographic study on teaching social justice as a female teacher of color, The Journal of Culture Research in Art Education, 36(2), 78-102.
Yoon, I. (2018). Disrupting the colonial globe and engaging in border thinking: An art educator’s critical analysis and reflection on (de)colonial discourses in global art narratives. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, 35, 249-266.
Yoon, I. (2016). Why is it not just a joke? Analysis on Internet memes associated with racism and hidden ideology of colorblindness. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, 33, 92-123.