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Week 10 Blog
Finally we have reached the end of this unprecedented quarter. The reading has also come into the conclusion part, "Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Wok". I am feeling pretty glad to see the minority scholars thrive in academia after experiencing so much inequity in the past few weeks' reading. The authors(Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis) stated that they fight for themselves, and save the future of both academia and society. And the result for their sustained fighting was that they "made a commitment to take collective action to change this dysfunctional, destructive system", with such power and responsibility in hands, they finally have the ability to rebel while creating a new kind of academy built.
What truly impressed me was the words recounting they had been investigating researches, writing manifestos and poetries, suing the university, and staying alive. Without their resilience, it could still be pretty tough and difficult for Asian American female scholars to fight for the title of tenure professors in the university. "No action certainly will result in no change", this reminds me of the words of Professor Valverde in the first several classes, that Asian and Asian Americans were not culturally cultivated to fight for equity; instead, they tolerate the best they can even when other people embarrass them. As a result, according to the conclusion of this book, women of color needs to stand up and fight for their deserved privileges, even a misspeak up word would help them rather than keeping silent.
Question: what is Asian America's situation currently in academia? Do they have the ability to fight for themselves now?
Reference:
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.
Picture retrieved from https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a31810912/anti-asian-racism-coronavirus/
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