Xinyang Xu
ASA 2 blog4
The experience told by W.P. in her article “Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim?” is shocking. People would never imagine what W.P. and Soek-Fang Sim had gone through. Both are suffered from unwarranted rumors. Soek-Fang Sim was mocked because of rumor and accent, and W.P. was suffered from “Everyone turned away when they saw me on the campus or coffee shops, pretending they no longer knew me… later I found out the college had warned them not to speak to me.” I cannot imagine how despair she was in this situation. And whoever spread this rumor and warn people not to talk to her is intolerable. College should not be a place like a cold machine.
Also, in Jane Junn and Mai’a K. Davis Cross’ “Investigating Discrimination: Injustice against Women of Color in the Academy”, they have further evidence regarding discrimination of colored people in academia. They conduct a study and “the results document highly disparate (much higher) rates of tenure for white males compared with all other scholars, including white women, men of color, and women of color.” The relationship between race and being awarded tenure is statistically significant, which means this should be call into attention. Whether the problem exists in tenure review procedure or reviewers, it should be corrected.
Reference:
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.
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