“Killing Machine: Exposing the Health Threats to Asian
American Women Scholars in Academia” reports discrimination to the colored women
in academia causes serious health problems. It was believed that women have less
ability than men and also people of color are not smarter than white. If we are
asked that imagine a professor, most people must image a white man. People of
color and women were excluded from the academic field, and if they are in an
academic field, they always are doubted whether they have enough ability to work
in the field. That will stress them and sometimes kills them. The poet “Who
Killed Soek-Fang Sim?” tells the prejudices and pressures from the surroundings.
That is not something happened in the past, it is happening today. Racists blame
and oppress people of color, and injure them.
Today I see many Asian students and professors at a university,
but the environment surrounding them is not so good. The new coronavirus
recalls a serious racism and they are started to be avoided. We need to remind
that racism can kill more people than the virus do.
Question: When will the racism completely disappear from the
academic world?
References
“Foreign policy experts call for end to hate crimes against
Asian American community: Readers”, USA Today, 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/readers/2020/04/15/asian-american-community-pushes-back-against-hate-crimes-reader-views/2991666001/
Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline, and et. al. “Fight the Tower:
Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy”. Rutgers
University Press, 2020
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