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.
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