“Attack of the Institution” is the best fitting name for this week’s readings. I had some thoughts going into this week’s readings thinking that it would not be such a big deal, being that the university is a business and those who cannot perform at the standards of the university should justifiably be removed. However, when learning of the injustices performed by universities against women of color, especially Asian women and Asian American women it is just wrong. First and foremost on a business standpoint it is best when all the employees of that business are happy and treated fairly because if not; problems will ensue and quality of work will go down. When I was reading Injustice against Women of Color in Academy, I was shocked to find out that some academies and universities were not following their own rules and regulations. The fact that they were going out of their way to change the rules to get themselves out of trouble is really disturbing. Again, it is understandable that a business needs to get rid of unproductive people but when the university/academy is making it so that the people of productivity it hires are lied to and used; there is no justification for termination. When the establishment receives praise because of the people working for the university, the university should take that into account when those people are due for promotion. The responsibility of a business is to perform smart, this entails taking care of the employees at that establishment because those employees are a needed investment to that business, therefore the business should not make the employee feel as if they are not welcome or taken care of. This means ALL employees, it would be unwise for a business to not take care of its employees. To read in the Killing Machine, due to a lack of acceptance from academies and universities of women of color especially Asian/Asian Americans leading to major health problems is very concerning. This goes against something a business, and even more so, a university should be doing to a major positive investment, or in a more realistic view; doing to a person. To push a person to the point of death is a place that needs to be reevaluated and investigated.
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| Kirchner, Self-Portrait as a Soldier (1915) |
A question that I have is how has this topic not entered the most popular forms of media in the world by now? If people are dying I believe it is something that should be known by the masses. When I read this week’s readings I thought of a painting by a German citizen in the time of WW2. I thought of this artist (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner) because when Hitler came to power Kirchner was labeled a degenerate artist because of his expressionist style. He later killed himself in 1938 due to the injustice he received. These two topics of academy and WW2 Germany are different, but the same in the fact if people feel like they are not appreciated and their life work is not appreciated and suppressed, later to be discriminated against; they will feel alone. This leading to the possibility of death.
References
“Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 May 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner.
“Injustice against Women of Color in the Academy.” UC Davis Canvas Discovery, canvas.ucdavis.edu/courses/392140/files/folder/Weekly%20Readings/Week2?preview=6318931.
“Killing Machine .” UC Davis Canvas Discovery, canvas.ucdavis.edu/courses/392140/files/folder/Weekly%20Readings/Week2?preview=6318930.
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