Karen Nguyen
ASA 002 A02
Week 8
Student
Activism
In Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students Negotiating
Power in Academic Wonderland by Leslie Do and Shannon Doloso, the two authors
go in depth about their own experiences in becoming and being an Activist –
Student. The paper focuses heavily on the experiences of Doloso’s as a Filipina
American female who went against her father’s wishes and became an activist.
She proceeds to go in depth about exactly what she did as an activist. She also
focuses heavily on what growing up in a Filipino family was like, how it felt
to go against her father’s wishes, and also how it felt being a Filipina American
female activist. In addition, she also mentions how she experienced the imposter
syndrome as an activist. The article then proceeds to go in depth about Do’s
experience and it focuses heavily on how activism is really restricted by
colleges and universities. She goes in depth about the Leadership Retreats
sponsored by the University and how those were like. She talks about how they brought
in Psychologists to talk about feelings and how that was a shield from talking
about real issues. Furthermore, the article goes in depth about how it is not
student activism which really stuck to me. By saying student activism, it is
implying that the universities own the activism and can control what it is
about. Therefore, it is not student activism but activist-student where the
activism is what really matters and the activist just happens to be a student.
Question
Why does it feel like the only
people who are in power to change things are all corrupt and simply do not care
about anything besides their own interests?
References
Do, L. L., & Deloso, S.
(n.d.). Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students Negotiating
Power in Academic Wonderland.
U. (n.d.). Will Indian Higher
Education Get Freedom from Corruption? Retrieved May 21, 2017, from
http://www.dreducation.com/2011/08/will-india-get-freedom-from-corruption.html
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