As the class
comes to the end, our last week’s reading, Conclusion
Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and being woke, brings my mind back to
the first week when we discussed about injustice in academia. This week’s
article developed around the concept “woke” and “staying woke”. Valverde
defines “woke” as a “process of information gathering and learned experiences
that lead to the shocking realization that even the systems of education that
we believe will liberate us are actually designed to oppress us”. Being woke
means to realize that the world is not as the way we have been taught it is. We
are told that Asian American scholars have to be all intellectual elites,
despite the truth that they are “privileged oppressed”. And that’s why being woke
is so important because we can see the real world by our own eyes. However, in
order to achieve the status of wokeness, we have to “stay woke” first. This means
“staying alert, picking up every connection, challenging assumptions made from
the outside and even ones we make about each other within the academy.” Again, the
world doesn’t necessarily develop as the way we are taught how it is. Instead
of taking in everything others told us, we should stay vigilant to be aware of
the fact that the academia system is not protecting us but actually damaging those
with colors and especially women. We should all wake up, stay woke and fight
for real justice.
Reference:
Valverde, C. Conclusion
Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and being woke. Fight the Tower.
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