Week 3 Blog
Qiyu Yang
ASA002 A01
Professor Valverde
From reading the introduction part of the book, it tells about the “complexity and diversity within the Asian American community in higher education and discusses ways to challenge a problematic set of racial, sexual, and social stereotypes.” When reading through, there were some points which were new to me and gave a more background information about the condition that Asian Americans facing, especially Asian American women. The phrase “privileged oppressed” was being frequently mentioned, which means the Asian American women seems to be privileged but in fact oppressed, and some examples were given for supporting. The approval rate of the tenured and promoted was only 40% for Asian American women, but as high to 92 % in white male. Also, there were lacking of scholarship focusing on Asian American women academy; great achievement from Asian American sometimes lead to negative perception of overintellectual. Also, an example from African American community, that quite a number of them are in the area of service rather than leadership. Yet, sometimes they were not rewarded, at worst, discharged. When companies thinking about dismissal, Asian American women were usually highly targeted. In this part, it answered my question last week about the origin of the gap, Asian American women were being treat as a minority model in the Filipino War. I knew that there were some Asian American women in academy stand up for themselves, I wonder how about other community? Did they do anything related to the issue?
Below is the comic Angry Little Asian Girl from Lela Lee, which was being mentioned in the reading.
References
Chandra, R. (2006, October 28). Anger: the Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful. Retrieved from: https://indiacurrents.com/anger-the-good-the-bad-and-the-beautiful/
Valverde, K. C. (2013). Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholar’s Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press
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