Week 10
ASA A02
From the reading of the week, the article/ conclusion "Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke" specifically, I gained a lot of new and eye opening information as always. What makes this even more interesting is that my professor Caroline Valverde is the writer! The important information or piece of wisdom I gained from the conclusion is that dying for one's people is a great offering but living for one's people is an even greater offering. This stuck with me because as I continued to read, I became aware that in order to even fight our battles we need to be cautious of who we are in alliance with and who we consider as "our people". And in the sense of prospering to equality in academia, we need to realize that not only are Asian Americans apart of "our people", but people of all gender and races in the setting of academia, the communities around us, and people of different oppressions. I also learned that when we start to accept the injustices handed to us and normalize them, we sort of draw a wedge in between ourselves. In stead of fighting for the right things and fighting for overall justice, we start to explain ourselves and deny who we are as a group as well as what our actual truths are. This relates to me or at least the people around me because , in general, regardless of the issue or situation, if we live for our people as a whole and fight for our people's truth we can get a lot more done with a lot more support. Also if we come together no matter the oppression instead of separating our issues and allowing for each group or category of activists to fight for their own oppressions, we can really make a change and start to make movements toward success and overall equality amongst our society.
Question:
Has there been real life examples of where there was more support or success when the different groups of oppression came together and fought for each other's truth?
Resources:
Valverde, C. (N.d.)."I choose to live for my people": On surviving, resisting, and thriving in Academia and Beyond".
Picture retrieved from: https://ronirvine.wordpress.com/oppression-power-and-privilege/
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