The essay examines the state of the American Educational Studies Association and Social Foundations of Education through the lenses of auto-ethnography and critical reflection. A discussion of the relevance of the AESA and social foundations in the context of transformative education for scholars from marginalized communities is central to the thesis. AESA is situated in the context of the transnational politics of inclusion/exclusion in the United States. The author supports a transnational hemispheric approach to social foundations for the American Educational Studies Association.