Yun Han ASA 002 A04 Week2

For this week's reading, "Fight the Tower: Women of Color in Academia Manifesto in Prologue: Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy," the author main how Asian Americans faced discrimination throughout the history. There are several parts of the inequalities. Asian Americans are stereotyped by locals. They do not have an equal chance as native Americans to go to college. Even for some Asian Americans who go to colleges, they still face injustice. This condition continues to the workplace in the future. Discrimination also exists between gender groups. Third or second-generation Asian American women who speak only English cannot be regarded as Americans.

In the lecture, the professor also talked about the dilemma faced by Asian America in history. It was difficult for them to get a sense of belonging. For international students from China, nowadays they faced lots of pressure because of the coronavirus. In daily life, some people think they never discriminate against someone because of gender or race. However, people sometimes unintentionally do this. There was an experiment that assigned identical resumes with white-sounding names and black-sounding names to the labor market. The results showed that resume with white-sounding names received 50 percent more callbacks than those of black-sounding names. This indicated that race discrimination always occurred in daily life.

Question: how can people reduce the probability of doing discrimination on others in daily life?

Reference：

Valverde, K. C. (2013). Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholar's Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University  Press

Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan (2004). Discrimination in the Job Market in the United States. Retrieved from: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/discrimination-job-market-united-states