In “What Asian Americans Are Bringing to Campus Movements for Racial Justice,” I read about how Asian-Americans are excluded from the mainstream idea of protests in America. This definitely rings true because as I look back into what protests I’ve seen, there never seems to be any Asians. I’ve always been taught that U.S. history has always been about blacks, whites, Native Americans, and Mexicans. However, I know for a fact that Asian Americans did protest in the late 1960s, so I suspect this is a matter of lack of media coverage. There was only media coverage recently when Asians chimed in on the matter of black lives being discriminated against by the police, so I feel like even our voice is being capitalized on when the journalism industry feels the time is right to show White America that we Asians have something to say.
However, thanks to the age of the internet, I feel it is now viable to make our voices heard by being as loud as possible in as public a place as possible, because someone with no connection with the industry will upload that online and it will trend through users sharing it. The internet is the way we can bypass the racist establishment that perpetuates this disproportionate representation in media.
Question: In what other ways can we have more people talking about Asian Americans on societal issues?
Media:
Works Cited:
Putterman, M. T. (2016, February 1). What Asian Americans Are Bringing to Campus Movements for Racial Justice. Race files. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
Wang, H. L. (2016, April 23). 'Awoken' By N.Y. Cop Shooting, Asian-American Activists Chart Way Forward. Retrieved May 21, 2017, from http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/04/23/475369524/awoken-by-n-y-cop-shooting-asian-american-activists-chart-way-forward
No comments:
Post a Comment