Yidi Chen ASA002 Week2

In the article "Fight the Tower: Women of Color in Academia Manifesto Prologue. Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy", it talks about the discrimination of Asian Americans. Asian Americans are marked as the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the United States and they are also stereotyped as hard workers, high achievers, and economically successful. I am really surprised that Asian Americans are considered as a model minority group. And because of that, they are treated unequally. Asian students are facing unfair treatment. They do not have the same right as white kids in college. Yellow peril does exist, it's a morbid psychology-mentality, ideology-derived from racism, and that's a fact that contemporary sociology has to acknowledge. Any excuse is as weak as the white trash that takes drugs and abuses our Chinese in the street.

Shirley Hune also talks about the fight against racist and xenophobia for educational access and rights. People in the past put a lot effort to protect their equal rights. There are many cases that U.S Supreme Court has to adjust the law, for instance the Gong Lum v. Rice that the U.S. Supreme Court expanded de jure racial segregation beyond African Americans to the Chinese, and another effort led by the Chinese to break school segregation by race failed.
For my question, there is still discrimination in our daily life. Since America is a diverse country, how should victim protect their dignity and right effectively?

Reference:
1. 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.