Examining Race as Sliding Signifier in Global Migratory Contexts via Hall: Implications for Teacher Education and Beyond

Cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, conceptualizes race as a discursive sliding signifier constituted by complex contextual covariables like ethnicity and nation. Guided by Hall's insights, the authors—a Korean woman and a White African man, both teacher educators at U.S. universities—examine how nuanced embodied and social factors like phenotype, language and accent, citizenship and national context are attributed different racializing significance relative to migratory (re)location. This duoethnographic inquiry seeks to provoke critical questions on race relevant to teacher education and beyond and provides etic and emic insights on experiences of racial identity and identification processes in global contexts.