Yicheng Wang, ASA2 A02, Week 5

                 Asian American Women Students' Power

This week’s reading keeps exploring how Asian American fight the tower in academia. Focusing on students’ negotiating power, I realize that how passionate and powerful students’ leadership, as well as their activism, can be. Coping with university administration, four students in SFSU never fear, with the protection of Deloso and well-prepared methodology. Yes, as Deloso indicated, “I am fighting to protect the ethnic studies-based belief that the university should support students’ growth as grassroots leaders who improve the lives of their communities.” Even though the cost of speaking is trail of tears, it pales in comparison to the cost of not speaking. So these students made a definitely wise choice in my perspective. After experiencing this experience that fighting crisis, they would receive welfare while other peers won’t have. That is, “your strength, your will to live”, saying by W.P. in the poem “The Cost of Speaking”.

When I read this poem, a sense of angry arises as before. However, this kind of constancy power is what I expected in this white war. The comparison for speaking and not speaking pushes every Asian American to wear helmet and armor; they must and they would. Utilizing various rhetorical technique like “[people seemed like on your side in the past] claiming “We’re your house and we will publish every word you write” is now fleeing out. They publish everything for money, except words fighting for author himself, because that’s not profitable. It’s so sad but it’s for sure that whatever we are facing, we can’t lose the determinant to fight for our right, on account of the fact that we know we are right, and our spirits have been lifted. As time going on, I’m so proud and admire that Asian American win the case though they’re precariously positioned. They deserve this wining and that’s what the university lied and owed to them.

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Question: If half of students in a class didn't cheat on the exam, the professor misjudges all of them just because their answer are similar to the answer being posted on the internet, and sends all of them to SJA. The professor doesn't believe that's a common answer. In this case, students are also in precariously and inferior position and they can't even provide evidence even though they says they don't have the account of problem-solving website account. What can they do in this moment?

Reference: 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.