Xiya Shi ASA002 A03 week2

After reading week2's assigned article "Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy," I see the discrimination that Asian Americans are faced in academia and the inequality of the educational environment. Shirley Hune, the author of this article, claimed that Asian Americans had made historic but less known contribution to the struggle of people of color to desegregate schools in the United States. However, those efforts took a long time to precede. As Shirley Hune said, "Chinese parents fought for decades to have their children educated by petitioning school boards and retaining lawyers to contest the legality of segregated schools."(Hune, 2013)

Fortunately, after years of unremitting efforts, the inequality academic environment that  Asian Americans are in has been eased. According to the online article "It Takes More than Grit: Reframing Asian American Academic Achievement," written by Jennifer Lee, the statistic shows that one-fifth of the freshman in IVY league universities are Asian Americans, which are only six percent of the country's population. This data shows that nowadays, there is less privilege for only domestic students; Immigrants, Asian Americans can access and have higher education by their intelligence.

The challenges for Asian Americans in academia will never disappear. Their rights and opportunities of gaining equal educational resources will be influenced now and then. In 2020, the coronavirus brings more malicious comments and discrimination to Asian Americans and international students from China. 

Question: Will the coronavirus issue also leads the public's attention again to the unequal rights Asian Americans have and the academic discrimination they faced?

References

Shirley Hune. “Prologue: Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the
Academy. Rutgers University Press.

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