After reading the part, "The Time to Fight it Now: Asian American Women, Academia's Socially Engineered 'Privileged Oppressed,' Go Rogue", it is my first time to think about how the structure of the academic is formed in a biased and unbalanced way in which race and gender became factors of how people judge the level of academic. Like the book mentioned, the groups of people in the academic should not be built when they are harming other individuals or people as a class, or as a group of race. The area of Academia should be free to enter and exit with no barriers. Therefore, the capacity of academic should be large enough to accept the diversity of gender, race and classes. Hence, we should realize that being an Asian and being a woman is actually a very proud identity in the academia, as a part to contribute to the creativity and diversity of the academia. Therefore, Asian Americans and Asian American women really need to develop the sense of confidence to enter the field of academia and fight the unbalanced structure of it.
Here are some female Nobel price winners that considered to be the ones who changed the world.
Those Nobel price winners are all great female scientists from different races and there is a number of them who are asians. Gender and race are not factors at all to judge the achievement in the academia and we should really challenge against the traditional stereotype on the bias of Asian American Women in the academia.
Question: In what way can Asian American Women gain confidence in challenging the unfair treat in the academic?
Source:
Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline (2013) “Fight the Tower: A Call to Action of Women of Color in Academia”. Seattle Journal for Justice: Vol. 12: Iss. 2, Article 5. "Taking Action: Asian American Faculty Against Injustices in Academic"Retrieved from
Caltech, "Women Who Changed the World", The Novel Price. https://www.nobelprize.org/women-who-changed-the-world/
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