Week1_Van Nguyen_A04

Week1

Van Nguyen

ASA 02

Section: A04

This reading of “The Time to Fight is Now”1: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue is an introduction into the inequality and challenges that Asian American faces in academia, and this sparks another issue of Asian American being discriminated academically. Asian American is a minority in the US, but rather than perceived as just a weak minority, such African American or Hispanic America, Asian American is model minority which silences the voice of Asian America, making them fear of anger, fear of “breaking” the model minority frame, such that Asian American should be a “good kid”, no rebels, no protests, and effectively work in the position they are assigned to. Asian American used as a social engineering tactic, to be used as a buffer between White and Black Americans.

Specifically, in Introduction to Fight The Tower, Asian American women faces so many issues with tenure, being able to have equal opportunities where they are at least as qualified as others but was disappointed because of their ethnicity which defines their identity, who they are. According to Valverde, there are people started to fight back, not fighting for just academia equality, but fighting for a social structure changes that enable equality for all in long term and stable future, and this can be achieved through our own awareness of the issues, to “staywoke”, through knowledge, and no fear of anger, and to be able to take action. To achieve this goal, this will require a lot of courage and determination, lucky for us, this writing of Valverde and Dariotis empower possibility and hope of achieving the goal.   

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The model minority myth and stereotypes overshadow the hurdles Asian Americans face, from career advancement to poverty. 

-        - Liou, D. (2018, August 8). Asian American women face particular challenges in the workplace [Digital image]. Retrieved from https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/08/asian-american-women-face-a-glass-ceiling-and-a-bamboo-ceiling-at-work.html

-        - Valverde, C., & Dariotis, W. (2017). "The Time to Fight is Now": When Asian American Women in Academia Go Rogue. Retrieved Jan 11, 2019.