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My project addresses the issue of White Supremacy in international schools with special attention to the testimonies of students themselves, and the long-term effects of their schooling on their cultural identity. As the international schools sector rapidly expands scholars have argued that these institutions uphold and extend White Supremacy. However, previous literature studying the impact of international schools has lacked data generated by students themselves. White Supremacy has therefore been primarily identified on an institutional level, without an analysis of the embodied experiences of the students subject to the white gaze in their own country (Gardner-McTaggart 2018). Data was collected through visual self-portraits and written interview questions from four Chinese students who attended an American International school in China. My study revealed that attending AIS produces painful disconnections from participants' cultural identity that must be gradually reconciled through the process of cultural reconnection. In conclusion, this project closely examines American International Schools under a lens of critical whiteness to validate the under-explored feelings of double-consciousness and racial melancholia as lived by Chinese international students.

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