Section A04
Week 10
This week’s reading, the conclusion to Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke, was probably meant to serve as the kind of conclusion that would push the reader into not only re-considering everything they knew about activism and academia, but also to encourage and educate them into taking action. There are definitely some good, and some powerful, statements made about how reforming the system means actually reforming the system, rather than just giving it a makeover with all the structural components intact, as well as ones that reaffirm the need for transparency and self-policing within academia. Overall, it reads like a call to action, with a lot of background information to explain certain parts and strong wording in order to encourage action and awareness. I do find it pretty interesting that apparently academia, and specifically Asian American female academia in the context of this particular piece (though, the argument can be made that it isn’t just Asian American, but WOC academia in general), has enough of a claim to the AAVE phrase “woke” and its consequent usages to “reclaim” it, or so is the assertion made by the writers of this piece. Would this count as a co-optation of “non-academic” languages? Where does the divide between academia and non-academia start and end? Is there really any importance to such divides?
References:
Dariotis, W. M & Valverde, K. L. (n.d.). Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke
Image Source:
Protestors Urge Northwestern to End Contract with ICE [Photograph found in Boston Globe, Getty Images]. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10, 2019, from https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/northeastern-university-law-student-ienna-fernandez-news-photo/997078668
Photograph by Johnathan Wiggs
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