Yidan Xu ASA 002 A04 Week 4

This week’s reading is Killing Machine: Exposing the Health Threats to Asian American Women Scholars in Academia and “Unpacking the Master’s Plan: Asian American Women Resisting the Language of Academic Imperialism” and Investigating Discrimination. The author talked about how she got into being a teacher in the Department of Asian American Studies and she recalled the president’s speech. There are also Asian American women in particular experience discrimination in hiring and promotion in the U.S. academy just like her. There is a study did ni USC for several years and they got five findings by observations. 1. Ninety-two percent of white male faculty were awarded tenure at USC; 2. Fifty-five percent of female and minority faculty were awarded tenure at USC; 3. White junior faculty are awarded tenure at a higher rate than minority junior faculty; 4. Asian American female faculty are awarded tenure at a lower rate than white female faculty; 5. Data on comparative tenure rates between minority and white faculty in social sciences and humanities at USC College show a different pattern from information published by USC. This overall shows a serious pattern of discrimination. Some universities ignored the standard and try to breach the hiring contract.

Question: Is discrimination only for Asian American women or also men?

Reference
 Valverde, K.C., W.P. Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance And Renewal in the Academy New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University

Mai'A K., Jane Junn, and Davis Cross. “Investigating Discrimination .” Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis, Rutgers University Press, 2020, pp. 96–109.