For this week’s reading we had to read “Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke”. The article
does a good job in summarizing everything we learned about the forms of
oppression that happens in the work place. Especially those that work in the
education system. However, something in the article that stood out to me is
when it was talking about the term “being woke”. We learned that being woke is defined
as being aware of issues in both racial and social justice. We also learned
that the term has lost its meaning and been turned into somewhat a joke over
the years. I think this is part of the social construct of society wanting to
keep people in their designated boxes put on them by society. This is why
society has taken a serious term like “being woke” has been turned into a joke
because it makes people take “being woke” as not serious so people don’t try to
learn and pay attention to these issues in the world. Throughout the quarter we
have learned how Asian-Americans have been oppressed in academia, the law, and
many other facets of our lives. Hopefully, throughout the years racism towards
Asian-Americans will disappear completely along with the myth of the model
minority.
Question: If racism does fully disappear in America will it disappear
all at one time or will some races be freed from racism before others?
References:
Dariotis, W. M & Valverde, K.
L. (n.d.). Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke
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