In the article titled “Investigating Discrimination: Injustice against Women of Color in the Academy”, Jane Junn and Mai’a K argue that scholars of color and Asian American women are discriminated against in the recruitment and promotion of American colleges. The results show that compared with all other scholars (including white women, men of color and women of color), white men's employment rate is far different. At the end of the article, the authors discuss some strategies universities can adopt to transfer and ignore discrimination charges.
After reading those strategies, I come up with some new ideas. There have been some groups trying to counteract the political correctness prevailing in the academic circle and seek a more diversified political tendency. I think that even if we abandon the issue of political correctness and do not judge the value presupposition of racial research, there is still a big problem in racial research: behind the development of these studies, there are often some hidden institutions and the support of racists. It is under the banner of academic freedom that these groups are constantly shaping the existing racial order to strengthen the superiority of white people. What this reflects is a question concerning the nature of Science: science has never been natural and objective. On the contrary, it has been restricted by environment and time and closely linked with politics. It is in this sense that scientific research often wanders in the boundary between justice and good, which points to a question worth pondering: can we ignore the universal rationality represented by justice in the name of good benefiting mankind?
Reference
Jane Junn and Mai’a K. “Investigating Discrimination: Injustice against Women of Color in the Academy.”
“Mogherini : EU calls on elimination of racial discrimination.” Web. 19 Apri 2020. Available from: https://europa.rs/mogherini-eu-calls-on-elimination-of-racial-discrimination/?lang=en
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