Week 9 - Jiaqi Huang

Jiaqi Huang
Section 2
Week 9: Solidarity Movement

Jiaqi Huang
Section 2
Week 8: Solidarity Movements

In this week's reading, "Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans" by Soya Jung and "Building a Culture of Solidarity: Racial Discourse, Black Lives Matter, and Indigenous Social Justice" by Santos F. Ramos, we discuss the Asian American "relationality" with the Black community and the American culture. Jung's work mentions the anger and sadness of the Black community after Ferguson and other police brutality cases which the media used to further discredit the Black narrative. Jung relates the unfortunate deaths to denounce the media which only announces our (minority) narratives when they highlight the American "exceptionalism", such as the model minority myth. I think Ramos concludes Jung's overall objective: why we need to look into the oppression of people of color in a "hierarchical" matter in order to achieve solidarity and then we can relate the their narrative.

I think the Ferguson case demonstrates how dangerous it is to be in White America. Main stream media can be used by oppressors to create the oppressed's profile and this content can be to their benefit. Just as Michael Brown died to a narrative written by the media. 

Question: What did Jung mean by "Japanese and Chinese American organizations and leaders were active in creating the model minority myth..."?

Reference:

1. Ramos, S. F. (n.d.). Building a Culture of Solidarity: Racial Discourse, Black Lives Matter, and Indigenous Social Justice.
2. Jung, S. (2014). Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans.