Xiya Shi ASA002 A03 week5

Xiya Shi
week5

After reading week 5’s readings, Shannon Deloso’s “Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students’ NegotiatingPower in Academia” brings me more information to deeply study how did Asian American Women students negotiate and fight against the power in academia. This passage clearly described Deloso devoted herself to protect precariously positioned students and staff and how to effectively reclaim Asian American women students power when negotiating in academia. 

Through this passage, I could see Shannon Deloso’s struggling internal emotions. She convinced herself to fight against the authority which was ought to be respected. Because of the gendered and ethnic biases, many Asian American undergraduates had little voice to doubt academia. The author Deloso wished Asian American women students and staff had the power to protect and voice for themselves. From Cindy Nhi Huynh’s passage “An Offering: Healing the Wounds and Ruptures of Graduate School”, I’m impressed by her because she shared her wounds and painful academic experiences that got from academia, and she intended to remind us to be tender to ourselves while fighting against the injustice. By using her own audacious experience to encourage thousands of Asian American Women scholars who faced unequal treatment to speak out.

I recently watched a show called “Fresh Off the Boat” which has some relevant content of how Asian American Women voices for the unequal treatment in her community. One day, she found that in her community center there was a mural named “we are the world ” with five little white kids. As an immigrant Chinese mother, she thought this racist mural should be torn down and made one of those white kids Chinese. Also, the kid’s eyes need to be the same size as others, and the book in the repainted Chinese kid’s hand should not only be math. Although there is nothing related to academic injustice, I think her actions protect Chinese kids who are living in the same community as her away from receiving unequal biases in school. Thus, even if those Asian American students who will face discrimination in the future, they will confidently speak out and fight against the power in academia because they remember that once there was an Asian American Women used her own power to fight against the majority’s biases by changing a racist mural as the first step.

References

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.

Michael. “Fresh Off the Boat's ‘Mo' Chinese Mo' Problems’ Was Near Perfection.” The Game of Nerds, 16 Nov. 2018, thegameofnerds.com/2018/11/16/fresh-off-the-boats-mo-chinese-mo-problems-was-near-perfection/.