"Go back to China," a woman yells from her car window as I cross the street. Her White Whispers soak in and echo. Drench my body like the agony of song." So begins a powerfully moving "autoethnography" by Karen Lee from Vancouver, B.C. Download White Whispers
This essay is particularly timely since some newspapers (NY Post for one) have published racist cartoons aimed at President Obama.
Karen V. Lee is a Faculty Advisor and co-founder of the Teaching Initiative for Music Educators cohort (TIME) at the Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C, Canada Her research interests include issues of musician/teacher identity, music/teacher education, performance ethnography, women’s life histories, autoethnography, writing practices, and arts-based approaches to qualitative research. Her doctoral dissertation, was a book of short stories, titled Riffs of Change: Musicians Becoming Music Educators. She is a musician, writer, music educator, and researcher. Currently, she teaches undergraduate and graduate students in traditional and online contexts at the university. You may contact her at: Email