Gabriel Yap A02 Week 9

Gabriel Yap
A02
Week 9

In one of this week's readings, "Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis", the author Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano writes about the actions of Pinay scholar activists. One of these actions which is a reoccurring topic among many of the previous readings is the action of building a community. Being a woman of color in academia has proven to be challenging and unfair, as many of the authors from previous readings have wrote about. In this reading, African American history scholar Robin D.G. Kelley finds comfort with a fellow woman of color.

More specifically this reading covers Filipino women in academia. An important idea that Robin's experiences show when someone realizes their call to action and acts upon it to change the world that they see how it should be. Robin realized that almost nobody she asked was taught about Pinoys. This moved her to search for answers and encouraged her to act upon her realization to possibly change the world. With another activist, Liza, she realizes her parents' behavior after moving to America and teaches books to counter the silence that her family had to go through.

My question is: How does school in America decide which cultures they should and should not teach about?

Source:
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.
Image From:
“Call to Action Button.” Cityos.io, cityos.io/tutorial/1342/Call-to-Action-Button.