Stacy Liu
A01
Week3
In this week’s reading, “Introduction. ‘The Time to Fight Is Now’: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered ‘Privileged Oppressed,’ Go Rogue”, Valverde (2019) tells me the information that I have never heard about it which is that “Though Asian Americans are thought to be a somewhat privileged group characterized as “overrepresented” 15 in the academy, Asian American women, constituting approximately 3.55 percent of the professoriate nationally in 2013 (Hune, this volume), are positioned poorly in the academic power hierarchy (Aguirre, 2000; Chen & Hune, 2011; U.S. Department of Education, 2015; Wu & Jing, 2011). ” In addition, I also find out that “74.4 percent of several hundred Asian American women scholars surveyed disclosed having health problems that they associated with the stresses they faced within the academy”
It is my first time knowing that Asian Americans are experiencing inferior positions in academia. This situation also causes the majority of those Asian Americans to have health issues. I cannot understand why this phenomenon exists because I consider people should be measured by knowledge and ability in academia instead of skin colors. So people should start to fight for their rights and no longer fear it. Just like the topic of this week “Fear Is the Path to the Dark side”, we should run to the bright side and get things that belong to us.
Question: Can you make assumptions about what is the possibility that Asian Americans successfully get their rights?
References
Valverde, K.L.C. (2019). Fight the Tower: Introduction. “The Time to Fight Is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue. Rutgers University Press.
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https://www.bibliovault.org/cgi-bin/DeliverADE.epl?transid=kWi4K6WgHL2SFWjl
Ado. (2015). Xing Shi Dang Xiang Guang Ming De Zi Nv. Kuang Ye Hu Sheng.
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http://www.kyhs.net/shijingjiangzhang/20286.html
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