Boya Di, ASA002 A03, Week 10

Boya Di
Section: A03
Week 10 Blog

This week's reading material, "Epilogue Upward and Onward: Asian American Women's Legal Resistance" by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, claims that in the community of Asian American women scholars, the struggle for Asian-American women at the academy must be fought as a larger cause of social liberation under legislative activism. 

In the article, the author thought that Asian-American women professors should awaken and be persistent in fighting for their rights in academia. According to this anthology's conclusion, they have no other choices. Next, the author discussed the turning point that was a struggle for ethnic studies of American academia. The struggle for ethnic studies was essential for reflection and renewal in the current political moment. Then the author gave an example of how to apply his explanation of ethnic studies struggle in his work. He built a community in which members support and care for each other for Asian-American women professors. The author also wanted to create more chances to foster intellectual collaboration for Asian-American women researchers. 

In my perspective, the success of any movement does not depend on one person. Therefore, I think not only Asian-American women professors but also all colored women professors should awaken and unite together to fight their rights in academia. When they unite together, their power for revolting against academia could also be strengthened. One person's influence is quite small, and there will be nobody pay attention to her. Moreover, I believe that in academia professors' abilities, researches, and courses are essential for a university instead of their races, social classes and genders because races, social classes and genders cannot provide any helps for students or universities. Therefore, when a university wants to promote a professor, they should examine a professor in all aspects fairly. In addition, the government should play a supervisory role in academia, and the country should establish laws to protect Asian-American women professors' rights.  

Question: Why the government does not protect Asian-American women professors’ rights?

Reference

6 Asian and Pacific Americans Everyone Should Know About. (2019, June 25). Retrieved from https://www.aclualabama.org/en/news/6-asian-and-pacific-americans-everyone-should-know-about

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.