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.
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