Vue

Rican Vue

Associate Professor of Higher Education and Policy, University of California-Riverside
Chapter Member: Los Angeles Unified SSN
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About Rican

Vue engages in research that is comparative, intersectional, and interdisciplinary to radically transform how we (re)imagine education for equity and justice. Her research focuses on three interrelated areas: (1) racism, violence, and displacement in education; (2) subjugated epistemologies and ways of knowing; and (3) critical policy analysis. Through these areas of study and scholarship, she examines the social and cultural processes that institutionally displace HMoob people and BIPOC students and communities, and amplifies the knowledge of people minoritized at the intersections of racism, classism, and patriarchy by highlighting their practices of imagination.

Contributions

Why Higher Education Leaders Must Interpret Anti-DEI Laws Carefully

    Uma Mazyck Jayakumar ,

Publications

"Countering Racist Gaslighting in Education Policy and Politics: A Critical Race Discourse Analysis" (with Katrya Txay Ly). The Journal of Higher Education 96, no. 7 (2025): 1436-1462.

Investigates how racist gaslighting operates within education policy and political discourse, particularly in ways that distort, deny, or minimize experiences of racial harm. Demonstrates that these discursive practices can undermine efforts toward equity by shifting attention away from structural racism and invalidating the lived realities of marginalized communities.

"'Justice, Like Beauty, is in the Eye of the Beholder'*: A Critical Historical Reimagining of Justice Possibilities in an Anti-DEI Higher Education Landscape" (with Rican Vue). The Journal of Higher Education 96, no. 7 (2025): 1300-1326.

Reconsiders how concepts of justice in higher education are shaped within an increasingly anti-DEI political and legal environment. Suggests that historical understandings of justice can provide alternative pathways for advancing equity, even as institutions face growing restrictions on diversity and inclusion efforts.