Tian Tian, A03, Week 4 Blog

Tian Tian, A03, Week 4 Blog

Among four readings this week, “Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim?” impressed me the most. Because of color and gender, they cannot get what they deserved. Even though Soek-Fang wined lots of awards, and W.P. was the most published author with the most innovative teaching records, they got low paid on the campus. Their performance has been ignored. People mocked about them because of their accent. In the story, because of Soek-Fang’s accent, her colleagues laughed at her when she spoke. At first, I am confused about why discrimination about accent will happen in academia, among people who all receive the best education? We all know that accent could not determine the performance of people. After reading this, I think it is the discrimination atmosphere in academia breed mocking behavior of people. Because the whole environment is not respectful, people’s behavior of mobbing and mocking are indulged and naturalized. Soek-Fang Sim has died, but discrimination in academia did not change. When W.P. came to the provost with all the evidence to ask for a promotion, the provost said: “you are NOT GOOD ENOUGH.” This is an unwarranted charge. Even though W.P. had two babies at home, she taught a full load of classes without a day with a maternal leave. In order to get success in academia, people in color, especially women with color, work times harder than others. With a ton of stress, they dare not rest. However, whatever how hard they work, they cannot get the deserved salary, promotion, and respect. 

In the reading “investigating Discrimination,” it provides us a cruel fact, white males have highly disparate rates of promotion compared with all other scholars, including white women, men of color, and women of color. The unfair treatment and the words used by the college killed Soek-Fang.

Question: Do we need some rule system to regulate the promotion in academia? 

Citation: 

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

(n.d.). Retrieved from https://immigrationandemploymentlaw.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/race-discrimination-case-against-kroger/