Week 10 - Jessica Garza A04

The paper, “CONCLUSION Academic Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke” begins to

argue that becoming woke is a necessary event that reveals structural inequites. The increased gain in knowledge about structural inequities leads to “Being Woke”. The Paper calls for the years of research, experiences, and knowledge to become an active movement where people take action against structural inequities which are known. According to the paper, the structural inequities which are set against “our people” include the Asian American women, and other academics of genders and races. The call that the paper beckons is to, “live for our people” is the same as fortifying ourselves to fight for our people.”

The paper continues to call out, “involuntary, socially engineered indoctrination into hierarchies of difference and false image of academic meritocracy...” Which explains that these have been, “accepted the premise of normalized injustice within the academy.” The continuation of the perpetrated, “model minority”, “is a lie deliberately built over hundreds of years to construct a wedge” this wedge is meant to divide peoples of all different color, race, ethnicity, and other ‘differences’ within the community of academia.

The paper calls out why the paper is relevant to academia and to the people within the structure, “We fight because the current system is antithetical to what we believe academia can be and what it claims for itself.” The quote explains that the reality is different from what has been envisioned as the purpose and drive of continued education and “wokeness.” An inspirational reference to call asian american women and others into actions is from StarWars and that, “We are not programmed. You have to learn to make your own decisions.” This is a powerful citation to call people out of their acceptance of the ‘norm’ of oppression and banalness. The call to action is to form decisions of your own and to protest oppressions and unequal structures.