This weekend, I read “Pain+Love=Growth: The labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis,” written by Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano and “Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian American Studies” written by Wei Ming Dariotis.
Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano is a Pinay scholar. According to Nievera-Lozano, she describes the relationship between women in color and academia. According to Nievera-Lozano, “one is the silence that is practiced in our families: of self-contempt, self-effacement, of grateful servitude, and a tiisin mo lang (“just grin and bear it”) mentality that is tangled up with hiya (the feeling of shame or the practice of shaming)—all of this spiritually and emotionally passed down by empire.” It is a known fact that immigrants are always self-contempt because they were new residents in this country. They need to be more careful and hard-working to gain their status. However, racists thought that this is a sign of “easy to bully.” Due to the stressful graduate school, students in color always develop some diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Besides, women in color in academia always seek for approval. Nievera-Lozano said that we grow anxious through the longing of tenure, “good” evaluations, and promotion; and know that if we don’t achieve them, all we’re left with is a shame.
According to Dariotis, “academic symbiosis is a system of social justice for communal transformation and liberation, rather than individual success. Rather than presuming individual winners and losers, academic symbiosis instead considers individuals; strengths as combining for the better functioning of the whole community.” However, women in color sacrifice their relationships and physical and mental health to get tenure. If they lose their tenure, they even choose to bully others into strengthening their power, which is sick. Women in color face stress from academia and racial discrimination. People can reject us barely because of our minority identity. In my opinion, we still need to fight for equal rights for women in color in academia, especially for the tenure due to the unreasonable high rate of white males who successfully get their tenure compared with minority women.
Question:
How to can we effectively eliminate racial discrimination towards minority women in workplaces?
Reference:
Nievera-Lozano, M. A. (2019). Pain+Love=Growth: The labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis. Fight the Tower. United States: Rutgers University Press
Dariotis, W. M. (2019). Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian American Studies. Fight the Tower. United States: Rutgers University Press
Asian American Studies. Fight the Tower. United States: Rutgers University Press
“University Of Connecticut.” Asian and Asian Aemrican Studies Institute. [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://asianamerican.uconn.edu/
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