ID: 912957212
ASA 2 - A04
1/13/19
While reading Professor Valverde's '"Time to Fight is Now": Asian American Women, Academia's Socially Engineered "Privileged Oppressed," Go Rogue," it reminds me of how certain social structures and concepts, such as "going to school to get a better chance at a good job," dominate (at least) the Western mindset and the Asian American mindset. From a young age, we as students are on a forced path to years of schooling and, most of the time, we are not exactly sure how the end result usually stands. While reading the essay, I also thought about how Asian American women scholars can be at a disadvantaged because they are thought to be the minorities who excel in academia, but they face certain challenges that they specifically face. I recalled back to certain Asian American women friends that I have made through high school and college and tried to relate it the certain issues that were stated in the essay. My question after reading this essay, giving consideration of how the social structure of schooling and academia dominate the lifespan of people from children into adulthood, is "are there other paths to socioeconomic success without academia being a primary focus in someone's life?"
References
Valverde, Caroline 2013. The Time to Fight is Now: Asian Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed."
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