Ruan, Michael

ASA002 - Section A03

In the reading, “Nothing is more important than thinking Dialectically” by Grace Lee Boggs, she told her story of how it was like growing up in an African- American community. She speaks about the present of how far Asian- Americans has come since the first waves of immigrants. She thought she would never see a day that Asian Americans would be on TV and hold political positions. These are great examples of how Asian –American are transforming through social, economical, and political ways in which they improve their mobility in this society. It is also a great example of American assimilation. She compared our struggles to the communities of African American by using Dr. King as a reference and also the struggles in Mexican cities known as the Zapatistas, who occupied cities to fight for what they believed in. Grace not only expressed Asian-American struggles and upcoming but also compared them with other minorities as if she wanted to form some sort of a coalition for minorities to fight together against oppression.

My question about the reading would be “Why does Grace talk about other minority group as well, is she trying to infer model minority or is she trying to collect everyone together to be on the same page and fight on the same side?