Chiharu Ito ASA002 A04 Week9

In “Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis”, the author and six Pinay scholar-activists discuss the relationships between colored women and academia. The environment is always stressful for them, and that causes many health issues, sometimes that kills them. In the news article “Spirit-Murdering in Academia”, the author claims that the unequal treatment because of their skin color murdered her spirit. The discrimination is treated every day everywhere, but people do not realize because of the silence of victims.

In the first reading, the Pinay scholars discuss how their activity breaks the silence and improves the situation after the analysis of the situation of colored women in academia. The core of the silence is the education and community that force them silence to the society. The unequal behavior among genders or races is normalized historically by colonialism, coloniality, and empire. Our views are filtered through that history and pressures from society, and it is hard to realize the inequality and suffering. It is not easy to remove the filter and consider what we require and what we should discard. However, that must be important to improve the situation of women of color in academia.

Question: Do people who are not Philipino also have the filters of colonialism, coloniality, and empire? What is the effect of that?

References

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.

Garcia, N. M. 2020. “Spirit-Murdering in Academia”, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education https://diverseeducation.com/article/168105/

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Kramer, A. 2020. “Why Asian-American Women Aren’t Advancing into Senior Leadership Positions”, Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andiekramer/2020/01/22/why-asian-american-women-arent-advancing-into-senior-leadership-positions/#74d31adb73d2