In this week's reading material, "Investigating Discrimination: Injustices against Women of Color in the Academy" by Jane Junn and Mai'a K. Davis Cross, the authors claimed that there is ongoing discrimination against Asian American women in a university setting. The main evidence for discrimination is that the university has "violated its own procedures, ignored its own standards for tenure and breached the original hiring contract of the assistant professor in question."(Junn and Cross, pg 102) According to the data, there is a difference in percentage in which who is granted tenure. Around 90 percent of white junior faculty are granted tenure while around 50 percent of female minorities are granted tenure. (pg 100) It is clear that universities do not show favoritism to minorities and they go as far as to ignore their standards to support this.
I think this kind of practice is wrong. Unfortunately, many people do not notice how much Asian American Women are discriminated against. As we discussed in lecture last week, the model minority myth expects Asian Americans as quiet and do not question the system. This myth made Asian American women the most ignored compared to others, and the university's unfairness is a product of this belief.
Question: How can we remove the model minority myth from the equation?
Bibliography: Bibliography:
Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline, and Wei Ming Dariotis. Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press, 2020.
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