Zoua Vang
ASA 2 A02
Week 10
Response:
In the article, “The Time to Fight is Now,” Keiu-Link Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis discuss the discrimination against the women of color in the university. They point out that Asian American women are invited as a model minority to undermine the idea of the university failing people. Then they are “quickly evicted” when they don’t conform to the model minority, especially if they speak up. The university’s adoption of corporatization has lead to the false meritocracy. Our merit and individual accomplishments are not protected; instead, the university protects itself. Valverde and Dariotis both battled for their tenure. Valverde won her tenure but with a huge loss in their life, medically, and Dariotis was denied promotion even though she had the perfect resume for the position. Despite the negative outcomes of their battles, their experiences showed that the university fears people that speak up against them, especially Asian American women. Asian American women are in a position of “honorary white.” Asian Americans aren’t white or black but in between and also given the label of Model Minority leading to the label of Honorary White. In addition, Asian American women in academia are placed at the bottom in which enables them to see the injustices in the system. Because of their unique position, when they do speak up, they are able to influence and create change. The authors encourage our voices to speak up about these injustices to bring about change. In one of our section discussions, we talked about how our position is very unique and critical because we are the students of the university, we have a larger population of voices that can speak up together and we have more time to organize a movement for change.
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Question: How should the university change to be able to protect the meritocracy of people of color in academia?
References:
- Kieu Linh Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis. “Going Rogue: “The Time to Fight is Now” and “I Am One with the Force and the Force is One with Me: Our Movement for Change in Academia.”
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