Week 1 Christopher Esparza Lezo Section 002

Christopher Esparza-Lezo Asa section 02 Week 1 Blog Entry

The Time to Fight is Now brings to light societal injustices brought by the corporatization and globalization of institutions like education to maintain the elite at the top of hierarchical power structures. By understanding the marketization of education, I understood education as system of influence and power gives rise to social engineering. Through social engineering indigenous people and people of color were used for their bodies as laborer’s and not intellectuals. Historically social engineering has unjustly treated non-white’s like animals to which colonial forces murdered groups such as the Native American to occupy their land (Valverde 2013).

The hierarchy of power gives rise to a model minority myth where racial groups like Asian American’s are privileged oppressed. Asian women in education follow tenured career paths as educators subject to a lack of medical benefits, lack of pay and acceptance of tenure status (Valverde 2013). Although Asian’s are stigmatized as a successful racial group, institutions continue to treat people of color as disposable.

I feel social engineering excludes people of color by disadvantaging career prospects like tenure positions to white intellectuals. The statement made by the J.D. Rockefeller education board brought to perspective the biases and prejudice American education system places to preserve white supremacy (Valverde 2013). This message sparked my analysis of rhetoric spread by non-liberals in support of the trump administration. Anti-immigrant views which marks people as lazy and non-contributable members of society caused me to question the creation of academia. What can people of color do to create an inclusive educational system? How can people of color fight discrimination within an institution that was meant for white’s?

                      Works Cited

Political Cartoons that Perfectly Depict the Hardships of Modern Day Immigrants. [Photograph] (2014, March 03). Retrieved from http://www.mcgregorfirm.com/immigration-political-cartoons 

Valverde, K. C. (2013). Fight the Tower: A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia. Seattle Jounral for Social Justice, 12(2). Retrieved January 12, 2019, from https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sjsj/vol12/iss2/5.

Valverde, K. C. (2013). The Time to Fight is Now: Asian Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,”. Seattle for Social Justice. Retrieved January 12, 2019