Yuqi Hu A04 Week 2

By reading Shirley Hune's article "Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy," I feel very disappointed. In the article, she said, " From the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century, while Chinese immigrant parents contributed to the nation's development and paid taxes to support public schools, their American-born children were being denied access to them." Those Chinese immigrants paid the same amount of taxes as, or maybe more than, some white people's taxes paid. It was very unfair that people paid the money so that they deserved to have the same rights as others. The public schools cannot deny their request to get in. Even though some Chinese parents went to court and won, the school still delayed that implementation. With the development of China and more and more Chinese immigrants in the United States, the places Chinese gathering the most like San Francisco and New York set up many Chinese schools for Chinese kids to study. The school in the picture is called Nam Kue School. It is in the Chinatown of San Francisco. The establishment of the school shows Chinese, as a minority in the United States, gains more and more power in society. 

Professor Valverde also talked about discrimination against Chinese Americans during the last century. Those two white guys who murdered Vincent Chin did not get a reasonable punishment. I felt very shocked and sad when I searched for this more online; moreover, I wondered what if the victims were those two white people and the murderers were some Asian people. I believe the result would be the opposite.  

Reference:

Shirley Hune. “Fight the Tower: Women of Color in Academia Manifesto ix Prologue: Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy.” (2019, October 11).

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