Fangyu Long A03 Week 6

In the readings, Akiko Takeyama, a Japanese cultural anthropologist, shared her experiences as a professor fighting for tenure. She revealed the cold har truth that “it becomes clear that systematic problems such as racial and gender bias and microaggression place bigger burdens on international scholars. Nonetheless, these burdens often remain invisible because it is very difficult to trace institutional biases and problems especially when faculty internalize them as personal incompetency issues.” In the whole academia, Asian American women are not welcomed and not treated with jutice. From her experience, students tend to have more cases of academic misconduct since their professor is an Asian American woman female professor usually give students more than academic care and writing a book in second language is hard. When facing the failure of the tenure, Takeyama did not choose to quit. Instead, with all the fear and burden, she fought back with family, friends and colleagues. Takeyama states that “In addition to the gendered division of labor, women of color and international scholars tend to attract racial minority and international students who often, in my experience, have very unique perspectives.” I can relate to this opinion. As an international student, Asian American professors seem more approachable. One of the reasons that I would choose an Asian looking professor is that we may have experienced similar education system and the we have less language barriers.

“A Model Minority? A National Look at Asian-Americans and Endowed Professors of Education.” Diverse, 21 May 2014, diverseeducation.com/article/63996/#.