This week's reading Fight the Tower: A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde makes me think a lot about the racial problem in the academic environment. For once I thought that there was rarely any racial problems in academics because academic is all about the correctness of facts and proofs. Just like when professor Valverde first went to college, I had so much faith in the fairness of education. I was shocked that the minority is actually a thing in the high-level education system. After I read this article, I felt that racism is just a small part of discrimination existed in academia. There are gender discrimination and discrimination in ethnicity. I'm mad that people and especially, scholars should not divide themselves up into different groups by races, gender, and ethnicity. It is just so inefficient and non-transparent. However, I do think that the problem with races would get better and better over time since the world is getting smaller and smaller. Every country in the world will have more and more immigrants with different races. People will just be more mixed up.
Question: are most of the stereotypes true?
Citations:
-Valverde, K. L. C. (2013). Fight the Tower: A Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia. Seattle J. Soc. Just., 12, 367.
-Valverde, K. L. C. (2019). Lecture 1, 2
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