Yuqi Hu A04 Week 5

  After reading the chapter "The Cost of Speaking," I feel the hopelessness of the author. He wanted to be a professor in college, but the college denied his promotion because of some invalid reason. His academic results were way better than his colleague who was a white male, but he did not get the promotion and his colleague did. the college president even hired the lawyers from the prestigious lawfirm to file a lawsuit against the author in order to get him out of the college. Every lawyer he can find did not want to represent him. I can feel that he must be so desperate and lonely.
  One of my friends was in a similar situation when she was in middle school. She was from a small city. That was the first time she studied in an unfamiliar city. She also had a hard time catching up with the courses. Everyone did not want to help her at that time because she came from a small and poor city. Moreover, the teacher did not care about her so much because she was not the best or the worst. She told me that she was so helpless at that time. She had no friends at that time because everyone did not want to make friends with her and thought she must be dirty. She was always alone. Fortunately, she transferred to another middle school and met many nice friends including me. However, that time period is the hardest time period during her life until now and gives her many negative feelings when she thinks about it.

Question: How did the author overcome that period? Did he find someone to support him?

Reference:

Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars' resistance and renewal in the academy. Rutgers University Press.

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