ASA2, A01, Nuoxin Xu, Week 5

Nuoxin Xu
ASA2 A01
4.26.2020

            After reading the article, “Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students’ Negotiating Power in Academia”, I learned that we need to stand out and fight for our rights. Fighting for our rights is the fundamental thing we need to do. The other aspect can be the condition, I should say, we should demand our rights in case there is there is a threat to any person’s live, to family or countries honor in any manner. I am in favor of only those fight for rights which have no bad impact on our people, our society.

            By watching African Americans expose institutional racism and government hypocrisy, Asian Americans began to identify how they, too, had faced discrimination in the United States.

“The ‘black power’ movement caused many Asian Americans to question themselves,” wrote Amy Uyematsu in “The Emergence of Yellow Power,” a 1969 essay.

“Yellow power' is just now at the stage of an articulated mood rather than a program —disillusionment and alienation from white America and independence, race pride and self-respect.”

Black activism played a fundamental role in the launch of the Asian American civil rights movement, but Asians and Asian Americans influenced black radicals as well.

Black activists often cited the writings of China’s communist leader Mao Zedong. Also, a founding member of the Black Panther Party—Richard Aoki—was Japanese American. A military veteran who spent his early years in an internment camp, Aoki donated weapons to the Black Panthers and trained them in their use.

References:

History of the Asian American Civil Rights Movement. Nadra Kareem Nittle. September 30, 2019. Retrieved from:
          https://www.thoughtco.com/asian-american-civil-rights-movement-history-2834596