Week 10 - Kevin Mo

Kevin Mo

Week 10

Section A02

This weeks reading “The Time to Fight is Now”1: When Asian American Women in Academia Go Rogue” by  Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis uses their academic careers to show the grave injustices of inequality in academic institutions. They experienced the worst that minority social engineering and corporatization of academia had to offer them. The culmination of racial, social, and sexist factors oppressed them from reaching their full potential. However, their struggle exposed light onto the situation through which we have studied all quarter. It helped me realize that the Asian-American cultural battle is not one to be dismissed. Growing up in the bay, I never understood the depth of which racial and socioeconomic inequality affect minority groups at an extreme scale. Professor Valverde and Dariotis’s traumatic experiences show that these obstacles can be overcome with determination and unity for change. The burden of revolution lies on the shoulders of the next generation of Asian-Americans pursuing academia throughout the coming years.

Question: At this current rate, progress in academia has been slow, how can students expedite the process of change in the hierarchy of higher education?

References:

1. Valverde, C. & Dariotis, W. M. (2017). “The Time to Fight Is Now”: When Asian American Women in Academia Go Rogue. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
2. cntvna.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/cms_6c810d43dcad456a9f35451be9abe606.jpg?w=1400. Accessed 26 Nov. 2017.