Week 10-Zaige Wang-A04

In the final week of reading, I read Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke, which is a connection to the first week's reading, a conclusion the the whole quarter of instruction, and a call to us to “woke" and start to do something for Asian American in the academia. I am so agreed with the authors that after years and years of social engineering and hearing of so many stereotypes, injustices became "normal" to us, and we may think that we are not in an academia with injustices and unfair. I used to think that the model minority stereotype is not so bad that the society may believe that we Asians are good at things. However, it turned out that it actually harms us, and is just a part of the social engineering. Also, I learned from the article that what is behind the work "woke". This is to know what is wrong and injustice with our system, and stand up to change it. I like the example that how Black Lives Matter raised after an innocent boy was shot by police, and how the society devalued and denigrated Black Lived Matter. The authors also notes that in the history, whenever the minority groups unite together, the privileged ones always use social engineering to divide us in order to continue their privileges. This means that if we don't know that there does exist a force to stop us, we cannot success, as what happened in the past. This is exactly why we need to "woke", that we know what we want and to what we are fighting.

Question: how did the existing activities and movements, such as Black Lives Matter, make progress? What are some major changes?

Reference:

Dariotis, W. M & Valverde, K. L. (n.d.). "Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke"
https://factsandtrends.net/2018/11/13/christian-students-stance-sparks-protests-at-uc-berkeley/