Tanvi Chopra ASA2 A01 Week 10

Tanvi Chopra
ASA2 A01
Week 10

Our final week's reading were "Conclusion: Academic Awakens: Power, Resistance and Being Woke" by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis and "Epilogue: Upward and Onward: Asian American Women's Legal Resistance" by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez. These readings are about the end of the fights in the world of academia. The authors use powerful sentences. I could almost feel their feelings as a reader when they talked about the reasons for their fight. The conclusion also shares the success of some minorities who have revolted for their rights. Mostly, it is a hope to turn anger, pain and suffering into oppression and revolt against all such acts and make academia truly equitable.

This book in its entirety as well as the lectures during the past 10 weeks have brought issues to light that I did not even know existed. We feel like this is the modern world, we have progressed in our thinking and act accordingly. However, this course showed us how untrue that is. We still have a long road ahead of us to completely get rid of discrimination. However, by spreading awareness and speaking up, we can do our part. My question: Is there anything else we can do for our part, to get the ball rolling and bring about even the slightest bit of change? 
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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.

Haubrich, Maria Valdez. “Entrepreneurs and the ‘High Hope’ Environment.” SmallBizDaily, 6 Aug. 2019, www.smallbizdaily.com/entrepreneurs-high-hope-environment/.