Yandong Zhang ASA2 A04 Week 10

After reading the article for the final week, “Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke”, I find that it gives us a good summary of this book and our course. The author wrote that the goal is to make academia become free of racial discrimination and everyone has the same chance to seek knowledge and promotions. We want to be treated equally in academia. In the book, many people have talked that Asian Americans are facing discrimination and gender problems in academia. And many people choose to stay in silence. However, staying silent will not prevent others from wrong opinions. We should stand out and fight for ourselves. This is not a fight only for Asian Americans; this is a fight for all people with colors. Just like what has happened in recent days. Many people walk on the street to protest for George Floyd’s death. This is not the first time that people with colors face unequal treatments under police. We should protest for our rights. However, people also need to stay calm when they protest. Violence will only make the situation worse. What people need to do is acknowledging people the idea of equal treatment.

 

Question: why there has been much violence in the protest for this time and past?

Reference: 

Acevedo, N. (2020, May 30). Man fatally struck by FedEx truck during George Floyd protests in St. Louis. Retrieved from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-fatally-struck-fedex-truck-during-george-floyd-protests-st-n1219701

Bowen Xu, A04, Week 10

Bowen Xu
ASA 002 A04
2020.05.31

During this semester, we read the book "Fight the Tower" in depth. This weekend's reading is more like a summary of the whole book, as well as the creators' original intention of their own creation and their understanding of "fight". The author mentions a core point that people must stay awakened and put this conscious resistance into action. The article reviews the author's central ideas and the people affected by this core idea. That is the Asian women, and all the persecuted scholars, which is the so-called "our people." The author lists many ways of struggle, such as literature and art, such as establishing a typical image and fighting with various kinds of efforts To shape everyone into an affected community, and encourage people to substantively fight for injustice.


In my opinion, substantive struggle is still a very long process for Asians. The ethnic personality of Asians and their less urgent social status have left many people “unawakened.” But in fact, such resistance is ultimately decentralized and has no major effect. For example, the vast majority of asa 002 are Asian students, and the voice of Asian scholars is still selectively ignored by other races. On the other hand, it is precisely because of the spirit of resistance of the Blacks that the violent protests of the recent days have raised the influence of the race, making them more and more indisputable. Of course, I am not encouraging anti-social riots and attacks on civilians. I just think that sometimes we can learn a little bit about the practices and essence of other races in the civil rights movement, or maybe our situation can change a lot.

Reference

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, pp.369-380.

Yidan Xu ASA 002 A04 Week 10

For the past ten weeks this quarter, we’ve been talking about the unfair and racial discrimination that Asian Americans face mostly in academia. However, those problems and inequality are not only happening in academia but also in many parts of people's life. All the videos we have watched, all the guest speakers' talking, and all the data and cases we have seen in the powerpoints opened a new world for me. Some of them shocked me and some made me mad and sad.
All these unfair treatments are what intensive people fight back. People have to fight the injustice and discrimination by calling it out, support each other, and gather together to stand out a place for themselves. Staying silent cannot change anything but lead to worse conditions. What we talked about doesn’t just apply to academia, it applies everywhere. Also, the discrimination between different-colored is only between whites and Asian Americans. Recently, something causes huge influence happened. Protests erupt for a sixth day across the US in over thirty cities because of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And up to yesterday, at least 40 cities have imposed curfews and National Guard members have been activated. This was not only about a man died due to the police's oppressive conduct. This brought up one of the most serious problems in US-Blacks and Whites. This is not about Asian American but similar racial discrimination we have to face.



References:

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-28/what-we-know-about-two-of-the-officers-caught-on-tape-in-the-death-of-george-floyd

Qi Chen A04 Week10

Qi Chen 

Week 11

ASA 004

 

                                  How Asians Fight for Their Right

This quarter 's ASA course came to an end with the outbreak of Coronavirus. From the beginning to the peak of the epidemic, we have witnessed how the epidemic, directly and indirectly, affects our life. What shocked me recently was the time when police brutality in Minnesota led to the death of the black. This incident has been fermented all over the United States, and even expanded to Canada, Britain, and other places. A large number of American citizens took to the streets to "uphold justice" for the black men who died miserably, especially the black people. They went to the streets to protest "for their own races" in this incident. In the outbreak stage of the world, only the United States has such cases. I can understand the angry behavior for the death of their compatriots, but I can't understand the purpose of such behavior at this special time. As more and more people gather on the streets, they will have a greater chance of contracting pneumonia, which will bring more difficulties to the medical community in the United States. It's controversial, not to mention the bad behavior of street protesters in setting the fire, looting supermarket goods, smashing glass, and attacking police. I want to discuss the importance of a race's voice for the sacrifice of a compatriot and the views of Asians on similar events.

In the conclusion of Fight the Tower, I recognize the saying "To die for one’s people is a great sacrifice. To live for one’s people, an even greater sacrifice. I choose to live for my people." In this case in Minnesota, I saw a lot of discussions among Asians. Many people have expressed that black people can obtain so many rights and respect in the short term in the United States because they dare to fight for rights in society, while Asians are still discriminated against and looked down upon for hundreds of years after immigrating to the United States. Whether this is because Asians are unwilling to fight for their own nation or sacrifice for their own. First of all, as an Asian, I don't think that's completely right, but it's not completely wrong. The Minnesota case is a chain event, which can not be explained in a single sentence. But when Asians encounter the same incidents, I don't think most people will choose violent protests. I believe that there will be protests and processions, and a large number of Asians will also make their voices heard in the media and professional fields, but the behavior is different from that of today's protests. Many people think that Asians are humble and law-abiding. In fact, I don't think this view is completely wrong, but it doesn't mean that Asians won't fight for the race, just that such a fight is not fierce. Nowadays, there are many Asians who are writing for their own race and making society pay attention to Asians. As the author of this book and its participants. But seeing this incident in Minnesota, and based on my observation of similar incidents. I have come to realize that a peaceful voice is always ignored. No other race would choose to read a book about Asian' unfair experiences, and few people from other races would come to listen to lectures about Asian American Studies. And then I can understand that black people fight for their own interests, which is effective from experience, but it undoubtedly destroys social order and makes many people sacrifice. It is painful and contradictory to acquire rights, and it is also very difficult and worth discussing to fight for our own nation.

Question: Do Asians have to be more aggressive to gain rights and respect more effective. 
 

Reference

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, pp.370-377.

 

 

 

Yuanji Zhao Week 10 A03

Yuanji Zhao
Week 10 blog
A03



"I can't breath"- this are the most powerful words currently in United States. At the moment office Derek put his knee on George Floyd's neck, he wouldn't execpect to create one of the most miseable tragedy in American history. Since May 25, when George Floyd passed, there was a huge wave of protist in American society. Thousands of people are taking both peaceful and violent actions to send their voice towards mis-used power among the society. They not only express their anger on socail media, but march on the street to show how they feeled. Although what happen to Floyd triggered the whole thing, the protist now has already went beyond that. People wants to fight against the power which are used to loot them. They wants to fight for their basic rights as human beings. According to "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah, society is a form of contract. When people choose to obey the contract representing by following all the rules and laws, they are expecting the maker and the enforcer of these laws also follow it. However, what happen on May 25th is an absolute example about how some of the offical break the contract. Along with the development of the protist, it is possible there will be other violent events, maybe there is other people who will be harmed. From an objective point, this protist may not end up with a satisfying result, but I bilieve it will continue for a long time as the desire of most American towards equal and human rights will not be vanished quickly.
In the end, I think protists may not be the best way to conmmunicate with the goveronment if they will lead to harm or even death, but as long as the spirit of fighting for justice is still inside people's heart, everything can be done to accomplish this ultimate goal.

Reference

Matt Wilstein-"Trevor Noah: ‘Police In America Are Looting Black Bodies’"- May 29, 2020 - "https://www.thedailybeast.com/daily-show-host-trevor-noah-police-in-america-are-looting-black-bodies"

Itsumi Nagakura - Week 10 - A04

Reflections

It is hard to speak about Asian-American problems when so many Black Americans are scared for their lives. It feels like our problems are "not as bad" but then again, I realise that this is all a result of the hierarchy that has been constructed within People of Colour because of the model minority myth. I realise now, that it was privileged of me to say that protests should be peaceful and people should fight with love in the past because our Black peers can no longer afford to just "fight with love" because the police only treat them with violence. Especially in a time like this, I believe it is important for Asian-Americans to understand that the fact that they can go out and face the police without fearing for their lives, is because we are used as a wedge to undermine the rights of other racial minorities. Like in Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke "We came to recognize that even the seemingly positive stereotypes of Asians as model minorities, by which we supposedly have free access to achievement and success, is a lie deliberately built over hundreds of years to construct a wedge between potential allies—not only between differently racialized groups of color but also between Asian American women ourselves."(Location 11065 on Kindle Version) We should be angry about what is happening because we are "privileged" from how we stand on our POC peers and we as spit out once institutions are done using us as a wedge.

If I were to explain things according to the title, I would say that for Asian-Americans in higher education the power is in the faculty and for Black Americans, it is in the police. Our resistance is against the institutions and our wokeness is to realise how we fit and play into the model minority myth while Black Americans have been woke to the racism they face every day. I see Asian-Americans complaining about how they wish people would be this angered when COVID-19 happened. While I understand their anger and cannot deny that a part of me feels the same way, I have to understand that we just simply don't get KILLED BY THE POLICE because of our skin colour. In fact, Asian/Pacific Islanders have a lower lifetime risk of being killed by the police than White people (Edwards, Lee, & Esposito, 2019).

Edwards, Lee, & Esposito, 2019

Now the fact that a graph like this needs to exist is beyond me. But you KNOW you are privileged/lucky if you are better than a white person. The model minority myth that labels us as sensible and obedient is in a way saving us but it labels our Black peers a violent as a consequence. Fearing for your life is no longer a race problem anymore, it is a human rights problem. We are fighting police brutality stemming from racism.

Payne, 2003

Works Cited

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. (Kindle Version) 

Edwards, Frank, Hedwig Lee, and Michael Esposito. “Risk of Being Killed by Police Use of Force in the United States by Age, Race–Ethnicity, and Sex.” PNAS. National Academy of Sciences, August 20, 2019. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793.

Payne, Roz. Yellow Peril Supports Black Power. Photograph. Oakland, California, n.d. The International Center of Photography. https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/yellow-peril-supports-black-power-oakland-california

Zitong Wang, A03, week 10

This is the last week of the blogging for ASA 002. In this week's reading, "Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke", I realize the common topics among the last couple of readings. I learned that the reason why we study Asian American history is to better understand the cause behind the current situations in society and academia. We should not solely see improving Asian American's situations as the "battle against the institution", or just the result from as narrow categories like "race, class, gender, sexuality".etc. We should know that this inequality happens because of the lack of awareness and the result of multiple factors in history. Just like my learnings from the last week's reading, we should be open to changes and expect a win-win situation instead of false competition. I also feel so pumped, after taking this course and studied through this book, I realized that so many amazing people have been paving the road for a better future ahead of us. 

I also had many moments of realization which I understood why sometimes people are knowledgable and lack of sympathy. People are naturally not motivated enough to explore a matter in-depth unless they or people around them were affected by it. This explained why I wasn't aware of Asian inequalities in American society because I grew up in China and there aren't many immigrants from other countries. It was when I came to the US until I realized inequality among different gender and race. I realized the importance of reverse engineering also because of the same reason. It is so vital to find the root cause instead of just "fix"/ temporarily resolve the surface problems.

Reference

Valverde, K. C., &Wei M. D. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. Rutgers University Press.

Asian Americans Then and Now. Linking Past to Present. CENTER FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION. https://asiasociety.org/education/asian-americans-then-and-now

Sally Tran, A01, Week 10

With the current protests and demand for change, one thing from this week’s reading that stands is the author’s perspective of “being woke.” In the Conclusion, “being woke” is learning and compiling information through history and experience to come up with realization (Valverde & Dariotis 429). It is about the idea we’ve been talking about all quarter, reverse social engineering. The system and society that was created and that has been in place needs to be questioned. And, that is exactly what is happening around the country right now. People are aware of the injustice and the inequalities that have been institutionalized and they’re fighting back. As the author stated, “being woke” is a process, a continuous process that includes challenging what we’ve been taught. People are taking action and it won’t stop until there is change and reform. In response to the protests, Trump hasn’t really done anything or has addressed the protests. As the fight continues, his inaction is an action. The police need to be held accountable for their actions. Racism is real and oppression exists. No justice, no peace. 

Image from https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/05/31/ap-photos-protests-america-george-floyd

References:

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2019). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars 

resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Matthew Ko ASA 002 A01 week 10

For this week, I read WP's poem, "My Kintsuki", and Professor Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis' written texts, "Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke". Both of these written pieces really tied well together and conveyed strong messages that relates to the main takeaways from this class and recent events. To start off with WP's poem, the Kintsuki that she talks about refers to a traditional Japanese art where broken pottery are glued together with gold. This is very symbolic because not conveys the idea that no matter hoe broken something is, there is always hope and an opportunity to fix it. Similarly to this "broken pottery", a "broken academic system" filled with racism and oppression also has the opportunity of being fixed. In the beginning of the poem, WP admits how she was about to give up on herself, but she then got motivation from God to keep standing up for her rights. WP ends up concluding that we don't necessarily need to get rid of the system completely, but we mainly need to reform it. In professor's Valverde's conclusion, she lists ways in which we can help fight the system. One of the ways to do this is to replace academic positions with more women of color. However, it has been prominent in the Asian community to remain quiet in order to show respect, and so that is why such change has been tough for the Asian American community. Both of these ideas are really similar to the current events of the unjust killing of George Floyd. The death of George Floyd could have also been avoided if the Asian Cop decided to step up and intervene with his partner to ask him to stop kneeling on Mr. Floyd. Nevertheless, the Asian Cop remained silent and simply observed the cop suffocating Mr Floyd, most likely thinking that he did not want to lose respect from the cop. This event is an actual representation of how dangerous it is for Asian Americans to keep silent: It can literally be the difference between life or death. It is therefore important for more and more Asian Americans to step up not only for their own rights, but for the rights of other people of color as well. To refer to the bigger issue, one way to reform the broken system of the police field is to - similarly to what Professor Valverde said - replace more white officers with people of color. I genuinely believe that as long as there will be more white cops than non-white cops, we will unfortunately continue to see such tragedy repeat itself again.

One question that I have is: what will it take to get more and more Asian Americans to start speaking up itself? And, what are the steps we can take to get mote people of color to become police officers?







Reference:

Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis, Rutgers University Press, 2020, pp. 423-441.

Malik, Mayeen. (2020) "George Floyd: How Asian Americans Failed Black Americans in the Struggle for Racial Justice" [Photograph] Retrieved from:
https://medium.com/@iamayeenm/george-floyd-how-asian-americans-failed-black-people-b8ea99a22512

Xin Nie, A04, week 10

After reading "Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke" by the authors Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Min Dariotis. We have been discussing the role of Asian Americans in academia as well as their fight for justice in the academic system this season. This chapter, a good summary of not only the book but also the course, reminds the readers why we should fight and why we should make ourselves heard. As the Covid-19 has currently triggered a wave of anti-Asian racism in the United States with no sign of weakening, Asian Americans spit on in the streets, facing harassment and insult. The family members of Asian Americans are threatened by the virus as much as any other family, while their fellow countrymen blame the virus on them and even attack children, which is beyond my apprehension. In the George Floyd incident recently, if he were a white man, things would turn out to be quite different. After watching the video, I felt irritated by the crime of law enforcement officials, for this is not the first time that US law enforcement officials have used violence inappropriately. It also reflects a systemic problem in human rights in the United States that discrimination based on racial, ethnic, and religious reasons have led to various problems such as the arbitrary use of violence by police during law enforcement and the prejudice in the judicial system, which are practical issues in human rights of American society. However, the current wave of racism provides an unprecedented opportunity for vulnerable Asian Americans to unite themselves and fight for true equality. This battle cannot be won by Asian Americans alone.

References:
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JIaying Li ASA 002 A01 Week 10

In the article titled "Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke," Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis argue that we fight because the current system runs counter to what we think academia can be and what it claims to be. We need to save not only the future of academia but also society itself. The significance of our victory and failure goes beyond academia's immediate scope (p. 424-425). I agree with this kind of statement, for which I think the basic meaning of modern social ethics is fairness and justice. As a social elite group, the majority of scientific researchers should respect the norms of social ethics and the academic community. University is the source of knowledge and wisdom, the center of academic research, and the center of academic communication. University is different from other social organizations because it bears the responsibility for knowledge and learning, human civilization inheritance and development, and is respected and respected by society. Therefore, academic rationality is the source of life and the foundation of a university. The academic rationality of the university includes academic freedom, academic fairness, academic morality, and the rationality of academic communication. If there is no academic fair environment, the university cannot cultivate the real scientific spirit. Teachers will not be content with the academic standard and loyal to the academy, which will inevitably lead to the decline of the academic.

References

“Academic Freedom Under Threat”. Web. 31 May 2020. Available from: https://fredblock.org/academic-freedom-under-threat/

Valverde, Kieu Linh Caroline; Dariotis, Wei Ming. “Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke”.

Songmin Li ASA002 A04 Week 10

From the poem assigned in this final week, My Kintsuki written by Wang Ping, I feel her strength and persistence, and fearlessness, especially through the words: “I will not give up No matter how impossible it is/ I will not give up No matter what’s happening around me/ I will not give up Until rivers run free, and mountains no longer slide Until swamps hum with birds and fish among cypress knees/ Until my heart becomes a temple” (p420).  In her narrative, she has stated that it is a turning point. She would be alive and victorious. Therefore, instead of hiding the interruption, she wrote "My Kintsuki."

Plus, It's worth mentioning the Japanese word "Kintsuki", meaning "repair with gold". Repair does not highlight the hidden fracture, but rather highlights the part of repairing, which shows the beauty that occurs during the fracture and repair process. I think it symbolizes her experience in academia and her whole past. Throughout her life, he has experienced continual suppression and discrimination, and while accepting those pain, she has chose to fight back, to break the "rules", to try to change the whole mold of industrialized academia environment. She has repaired not only her own mood and life, but the ethos and "conventions" of the academic world as a whole. When she has walked these paths, she can feel her own professional self-worth and "the beauty that occurs during the repair process." I taste the liberation and the relief from this poem.

What's more, through the article “Conclusion: Academic Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke”, which is the end of the book Fight the Tower, I deeply feel that in order to pursue equality and relative freedom, people really need a lot of effort, especially for minority groups. The women of color in the American academic community experienced many unsuccessful failures and frustrations. Although there are many areas where anti-discrimination is expressed on the surface now, such "invisible discrimination" still exists. I also know that rights of women were strived with a severe path, that it is a paved road with tears and blood donation. Not only is it necessary for women to speak for women, but for colored people. We need men to speak for women, and mainstream people to speak for minorities.

References:
Image from: https://aapr.hkspublications.org/2017/04/17/foreword/

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M., (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars 
resistance and renewal in the academy. Rutgers University Press.

Chiyuan Zhang Week 10

This book combines many individuals' different experiences and ideas to show the current condition of Asians and Asian Americans. It is true that our society still has general stereotypes and discrimination for Asians and Asian Americans. For myself, I met stereotypes too. It is hard to earn everyone's respect and understanding. Many Americans don't learn or know about Asian Americans or Asians so in their mind, their prejudices are deep-rooted. Thus, in a short time, Asian Americans cannot reduce most Americans' prejudices. Although Asian Americans do excellent work, many Americans don't believe that Asians and Asian Americans are more excellent than themselves. For example, in the book, the unfairness in academia. Although the whites and Asians do the same good job, people will praise the whites-only and ignore the success of Asians. On the other hand, for international students, we have many worries and disturbing emotions. I am always worried about meeting the professor or tutor with racial discrimination because this kind of person really exists in society around us. In the last chapter of the book, the author mentions that "the purpose of writing this book is not to recreate another system of hierarchy but to empower administrators, faculty, staff, students, and the community to remake and revision education as liberation not only for individuals but also for groups and our society as a whole." I really agree with these sentences. Breaking prejudice is a challenge. It needs everyone's efforts and cooperation to liberate all groups from systemic violence.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Reference:   

pic:  https://www.google.com/search?q=asian+american+fight+bias&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwidrc3N19_pAhU4zIsBHVl2BU8Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=asian+american+fight+bias&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1CBLVifOGC4OWgCcAB4AIABsAGIAegHkgEDMC42mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWc&sclient=img&ei=UnfUXp28EbiYr7wP2eyV-AQ&bih=674&biw=1536#imgrc=iLiztg6sgQG1oM

Yvonne Chen, ASA 02 A01, week 10

W.P.'s poem “My Kintsuki” still has strong personal characteristics. It contains a huge amount of emotions and implies deeper meanings and topics. The author shows his resolution that he will try his best to fight against unequal, and willing to cost anything. "Calm a storm with a storm", "soothe anger with anger" demonstrates that he is fearless about using violence to push the development of equality and justice for Asian America. This let me think of recent demonstrations for the black. The blacks use violent actions in Minnesota against violence towards them. They try to use these actions to show their anger and force the US government and people in the US to directly face this problem. There were many similar events happened before, but those black didn't get response and respect. This time, people become more certain about their beliefs and people from different states unit together to fight with unequal treatment. The loss of Black's lives makes them so sad, and they want to make some change. I will keep track of this event and see if the government can really do something good for them. I have a question that if the blacks will stop after there is a satisfactory punishment towards that police, or they want more?


Reference:

1. Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline, and Wei Ming Dariotis. Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press, 2020.
2. US News, and Trump Presidency. “Minneapolis Police Station Torched Amid George Floyd Protest.” Www.theepochtimes.com, 29 May 2020, www.theepochtimes.com/national-guard-called-to-respond-to-minneapolis-violence_3368853.html.

Takami Yamamoto ASA 2 A02 Week 10

In this week's reading "Conclusion: Academics Awaken Power, Resistance and being Woke" by Kieu Linh Caroline and Wei Ming Dariotis, it is about how we should make the environment for higher academia fair for people from all races. I think it is really important to make the academia fair, relating to what happened to George Floyd. 
By pushing colored people outside the higher academia, it actually makes a circle that colored people are not able to get higher education or not be able to earn a place within the higher academia, which makes their children have little access to better resources and education, and thus their children will stay at the lower tile of the society.
What is going on inside the higher academia is actually a shrunk view of the whole society. It is not just academia, but every aspect of society is not giving chances or respect to colored people. This society has a white disease now, which makes other races suffer and even die. Just like one of the African American interviewees said during a street interview on TV: "the white knee that is crushing our necks has always been there to suffocate us." 
Question: Is this protesting happening really going to change anything? or is it just going to be another chaos that left us with nothing?


Reference:

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Image retrieved from: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-28/what-we-know-about-two-of-the-officers-caught-on-tape-in-the-death-of-george-floyd

Shan Xu ASA 002 A04 WEEK 10

This week, I read “Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke”, which wrote by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis. This article is the last chapter of the book, “Fight the Tower”, which is a good conclusion for the book and is good ending suggestions about Asian American discrimination.  This article focuses on “turning research into action and the creation of movements for change through which academia may become a place of truth-seeking and equitable teaching and learning”.

In the article, the author mentioned that “I choose to live for my people”. Our people are Asian American women, fellow academics of all genders and races, the larger community of academia, and of course the communities that we serve. To “live for our people” is the same as fortifying ourselves to fight for our people. We should fight for ourselves, our colleagues, students, and families, instead of being silent. We have to make some changes, for example, we should confront the reality of the academic system instead of academics with a “rational world” of fake reward, and we should be being woke to grow more equitable and just and ultimately more meritorious.

Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline, Wei Ming Dariotis. Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press, 2020

Zhuobin Li, A01, Week 10

5/31/2020
Zhuobin Li

    The last chapter of“The Academic Awakens – We Are One with the Force and the Force is One with Us”written by the authors Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis impressed me a lot.

  “We fight because the current system is antithetical to what we believe academia can be and what it claims for itself. We fight for ourselves, our colleagues, students, and families. We fight in hope that others will know they are not alone and they, too, can learn how to fight the system so we can stop fighting ourselves and each other. We fight to save the future not only of academia but society itself." This chapter concludes that this book is about the fight of Asian American women. This reminds me of the whole book, it is about the experience of the author joining the academia. The discrimination towards Asian American women in academia is like the "shatter pot."Also, to deal with the discrimination, we have to fight with love not violence.


Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline, and Wei Ming Dariotis. Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press, 2020.

Georgina Liu ASA 002 A03 Week 10

According to this week’s reading list, we read “Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke” and “Epilogue: Upward and Onward: Asian American Women’s Legal Resistance.” According to the first article, the author claim that Asian American women should always stay awake. The author said that it meant staying alert, picking up every connection, challenging assumptions made from the outside, and even ones we make about each other within the academy.” The false image of academic meritocracy always depicts Asian American scholars as intelligent and successful people. But the racial discrimination and pressure faced by Asian American employees in workplaces are still being ignored.

Also, Asian American women are always educated that in our families and communities to value the community above the individual. As a result, when Asian American women face injustice and discrimination, they are used to be silent. Asian-American women may conclude that the reasons why they do not get equal treatment are their poor quality of teaching and research. If Asian Americans remind in silent, their unfair treatment will never be disclosed. Asian American women should always be aware of the reality of the current academic system, consisting of lots of racial discrimination and sexual discrimination. They need to break it and rebuild a new fair educational system.

Nowadays, many people walk on the street to protest for George Floyd’s death. Four polices’ violence towards George Floyd discloses the brutality towards black. People do not remind in silence. Instead, they use their right to protest for the injustice that happened in society. Their fight forces the government to make the right decision. So, when people face discrimination, the last thing they should do is being silent.

Question: Why many people choose to protest violently instead of peacefully?

Reference:

Dariotis, W. M. & Valverde, K.-L. C. (2019). Conclusion. Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke. United States: Rutgers University Press

Sibley, J. (2020). Thousands Rally in London, Berlin over George Floyd Death. [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/thousands-rally-london-berlin-george-floyd-death-200531165655677.html

Chiharu Ito ASA002 A04 Week10

From all readings of this course, we have learned about the existence of racial and gender discrimination in academia, and the backgrounds of how they were created and supported. In “Conclusion: Academics Awaken Power, Resistance and being Woke”, the author highlights what we can do to change the system of academia with the long history of racism. The author wrote “This is not just about battles against the institution, nor is it about race, class, gender, sexuality, or anything else that divides us, but rather it is about how we choose, now that we have awoken to the reality of these structures, to live in alliance with ‘our people.’” We need to realize what was happened and why that happened, then each individual needs to think about what future we want. There are various ways to speak up and change the system of society. The news article “Docuseries offers fresh look at Asian American experience” introduces a documentary of Asian American history and experiences. Creating a movie source is an effective way to show what was happening to the public and provide opportunities to think about what kind of future we want. It is very important to continue those actions, and I hope that more and more people join those activities.

References

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. 2020. “Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars’ resistance and renewal in the academy”. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Nakayama, T. 2020. “Docuseries offers fresh look at Asian American experience”, Nichi Bei: A Mixed Plate of Japanese American News and Culture.

Week 10, ASA 002 A01, Nuoxin Xu

Nuoxin Xu
ASA 001 A01
5.31.2020

Upward and Onward: Asian American Women's Legal Resistance by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez conveys a sense of hope, especially in times of uncertainty. Wang uses the word "kintsuki" to indicate how she has become stronger in the face of challenges. "Holding this world with veins of gold" is a line that also represents how she and others like her have made the world a better place and repaired the brokenness of the world. Her repetition of "I will not give up" in the second half of the poem conveys her determination and gives hope for the future. Rodriguez recounts the different ways in which people of color in academia resist the ivory tower. She introduced the support network, where women of color can share strategies for success in academia. These support networks also aim to increase the visibility of their work and to carry out reforms that value academic minorities. She also recounted how she and others held hearings on Asian American studies at the University of California, Davis, to discuss how not to take the topic seriously and how not to focus on underserved Asian Americans. The hard work that people have done and are still doing offers hope that academia is a better place, but only if people fight for it.

References:

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Katharina Tian ASA002 A01 Week10

Katharina Tian
ASA002 A01 Week10

Caroline Valverde

The End, But Another Start 

This is the last blog and also the last part of this book “Fight The Tower”. The conclusion part of this book, "Conclusion: Academics Awaken Power, Resistance and being Woke" by Kieu Linh Caroline and Wei Ming Dariotis, is about the change in the education system that allows all races of the scholars and the learners to access the academic resources freely and fairly. By reading through this book, I knew there are many great people who are fighting for us. They as professors faced many unfair treatments such as low salaries, hopeless promotion, and even job insecurity. Most of them chose to fight against this situation not only for themselves but also for other people who have the same identities as them. I feel so grateful and very appreciated. They are heroes for Asian Americans.

However, I think this unfair treatment should not exist especially in academics. People who work in the Academic should have high education which should be teahed them that being racist is not right.  People who have high education should have a very diverse and open mind. We are all humans. We are all the same whatever which country they are from or which color their skins are. I can’t keep thinking about the tragedy that happened recently. The poor black man, George Floyd, was killed by the US police who pinned him down on the ground for a couple minutes with his knee without listening to George’s request for breathing. I believe if this is a white man, then this tragedy won’t happen. So, my question is that how can people be so cureless to another human when that person says he can’t breathe anymore?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/us/minneapolis-police-encounter-death-trnd/index.html

Reference

Valverde, K.-L. C., &Wei Ming D. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Sanchez, R., Sutton, J., & Moshtaghian, A. (2020, May 26). 4 Minneapolis cops fired after video shows one kneeling on neck of black man who later died [Digital image]. Retrieved May 31, 2020, from https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/us/minneapolis-police-encounter-death-trnd/index.html