Aoran Zhao ASA 002 A02 Week 10 Blog

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ASA 002 A02

Week 10 Blog

I finished reading "Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy" this week. 

I was impressed by one sentence in "Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke". Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei ming Dariotis wrote that "Power that seeks to support itself over justice inevitable leads to oppression". We can see that this is exactly the reason why there is injustice in academia. So, we need to fight for justice. The authors in "Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy" "dramatically, cogently, and fiercely unveiled important truths while offering actionable resistance". They also provided thoughtful solutions, actions, and revolutions. I hope academia can be "a place of truth seeking and equitable teaching and learning" in the future. 

From "Epilogue. Upward and Onward: Asian American Women's Legal Resistance" written by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, I learned that we need to put ourselves in to  larger movements of academic activisms to fight against oppression. The study of Asian American is important. Rodriguez said "the fight for Asian American women in the academy must be conducted as a fight as a fight for a larger cause of social liberation". People need to realize the importance of studying in Asian American and fight against oppression in academia. 

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