Xiya Shi ASA002 A03 week 3

Xiya Shi A03
Blog 3

For week 3, Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis' article "The Time to Fight Is Now": Asian American Women, Academia's Socially Engineered "Privileged Oppressed," Go Rogue "gives me more historical information about how has academia been used to oppress Asian American women scholars through "social engineering "projects. With more injustices happened in the group of Asian American female scholars, they took steps to resist the discrimination they faced. Just as the author of this book cited Mr. Miyagi of Star Wars' saying and concluded that while facing difficulties and unequal power, one cannot be ruled by fear that will oppress us (Valverde and Dariotis 49). So, they attempted to have positive changes in order to remove the identity of being privileged oppressed.

Under the mechanism of social engineering, academia was inundated with unjust discrimination on race, gender, ethnics, and social class. Sometimes, people may unintentionally label women scholars with more tags. For instance, with the social identity of "mother," women scholars always being doubted that they do not have enough time to devote to the work; with the yellow skin, Asian American scholars will be isolated by scholars of white. The inherent superiority of white aggravated the racial, social order that being placed across the Asian American women scholars. There were so many tags on their head that hampered their expectation of chasing scholastic honor.

Question: What should be the first step to remove the racial labels on Asian American women?

References

Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline, and Wei Ming Dariotis. Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press, 2020.

“33 Asian American Groups and Academics File Post-Trial Amicus Brief in Support of Race-Conscious Admissions at Harvard.” AALDEF, 10 Jan. 2019, www.aaldef.org/press-release/33-asian-american-groups-and-academics-file-post-trial-amicus-brief-in-support-of-race-conscious-admissions-at-harvard-university/.