Ruoting Wan A03 Week3

Ruoting Wan

ASA2 A03

Week 3 Blog

4/11/20

In this week’s reading “‘The Time to Fight Is Now’: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” the author talked about Asian American women in the Academy are being considered as the “model minority”. It seems like this is a positive privilege. However, it is not. Asian American women have a vulnerable position in the Academy and mostly they can hardly have promotion and tenure. Considering “model minority myth”, I have a lot of phrases in my mind, such as quiet, smart, and work hard, etc. In addition, Asian American kids are being considered as “whiz kids”. Those model minority myths are imprecise and misleading. Instead of myth, I think it is more like a stereotype. People are not considered Asian Americans as individuals. They think they are all same and ignore their diverse cultures and distinctive personalities. In the passage, the author writes that “Asian American women function as a “phantom peril” in the university: despite our very small faculty numbers, we must be attacked and limited.” Asian American women are be considered as dangerous and threatening in the academy. They don’t have a place to stand up and say something in the academy as well. They are also taking action to change the system and want to restructure it as well.

Question: How other races be treated in the academy, such as intersectional American Indian, Black, and Latinx? Are they get the same treatment as Asian Americans or worse?

Reference

Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis. “Introduction. “The Time to Fight Is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue.”

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