Week 8 Bailey Wang

Bailey Wang

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Week 8

“What Asian Americans are Bringing to Campus Movements for Racial Justice” by Mark Putterman explains about the lack of representation in social movements for Asians on college campus. During social movements for other minority races, it appears that Asians do not belong to either groups: privileged or minority. The example movement shows how ostracized Asians are, thus showing that Asians have no place in either groups. Usually when an Asian thinks of college, they mostly just go to college to receive a degree and that’s all. It shows also that the only other Asian faculty are not within admissions, but instead, within the STEM related fields. With the lack of representation for Asians, they are unable to seek safe spaces and voice their own opinions on certain topics.

Personally, I never found myself into any club or social society, for the most part, I viewed college as a place to get a degree. It is also rare for me to take a class in a non-STEM related field with an Asian professor either, and majority of my STEM professors were Asians. I think that the lack of Asians in other fields holds back people’s understandings of Asians and Asian Americans.

Is it possible for Asians to seek more representation despite a board where there are a lack of Asians in it?

CAPAC. (2014). asian-american-model-minority-myths-broken. Retrieved from http://reappropriate.co/2014/08/lives-unlived-dreams-undone-americas-siege-on-blackness-ferguson/asian-american-model-minority-myths-broken/

Putterman, M. (2016, February 1). UC Davis Canvas Discovery. Retrieved from https://canvas.ucdavis.edu/courses/138514/files/folder/Week%20of%20Readings/Week8?preview=1747416