A04
Week 6
In the reading that we covered this week, the reading that impressed me most was the article named "Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar's Fight." written by Akiko Takeyama. It mainly talks about professor Takeyama's fight for tenure as an international scholar and her own case culminating in an agonizing battle for tenure. I am able to see how unequally that Asian American women scholars are treated in U.S. academic institutions.
Although there is a growing trend in hiring foreign scholars in order to increase internationalization, those scholars didn't truly have speaking rights and impacts in academic institutions. There are still a large amount of racist problems to Asian American scholars. For example, Americans may think they have issues with accent and language. They think it's hard for the Asian American scholars to speak their language smoothly and understand English. As the professor Takeyama illustrates in the topic, "Once she was on the side of serving on tenure and promotion review committees, she recognized the systemic over-interrogation of women’s work and the relative ease with which white male faculty moved through the process." People will always think that male will have better ability in working than women scholars. It's also a discrimination to the women scholars.
Problem: In this way, I want to know is there any activity to make sure Asian American women scholars are able to get respected and treated equally in U.S. academic institutions?
Citation:
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.
Chow, K. (2018, September 27). If We Called Ourselves Yellow. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/09/27/647989652/if-we-called-ourselves-yellow
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