Bailey Wang
ASA002A03
Week 8
“What Asian Americans are Bringing to Campus Movements
for Racial Justice” by Mark Putterman explains about the lack of representation
in social movements for Asians on college campus. During social movements for
other minority races, it appears that Asians do not belong to either groups: privileged
or minority. The example movement shows how ostracized Asians are, thus showing
that Asians have no place in either groups. Usually when an Asian thinks of
college, they mostly just go to college to receive a degree and that’s all. It
shows also that the only other Asian faculty are not within admissions, but
instead, within the STEM related fields. With the lack of representation for
Asians, they are unable to seek safe spaces and voice their own opinions on
certain topics.
Personally, I never found myself into any club or social
society, for the most part, I viewed college as a place to get a degree. It is
also rare for me to take a class in a non-STEM related field with an Asian
professor either, and majority of my STEM professors were Asians. I think that
the lack of Asians in other fields holds back people’s understandings of Asians
and Asian Americans.
Is it
possible for Asians to seek more representation despite a board where there are
a lack of Asians in it?
CAPAC. (2014). asian-american-model-minority-myths-broken. Retrieved from
http://reappropriate.co/2014/08/lives-unlived-dreams-undone-americas-siege-on-blackness-ferguson/asian-american-model-minority-myths-broken/
Putterman, M. (2016, February 1). UC Davis
Canvas Discovery. Retrieved from
https://canvas.ucdavis.edu/courses/138514/files/folder/Week%20of%20Readings/Week8?preview=1747416
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