Saturday, May 2, 2020

Qiuyue Li, A04, wk6

Due to the globalization and multinational cooperation, international faculties have already become a significant group in the U.S. academic landscape, but their experience in academia is little known (Takeyama, 2020). International scholars meet many challenges in academia such as language, accent bias, acculturation, racism, sexism, and legal residency issues (Takeyama, 2020). Especially, Asian women scholars are very difficult to achieve a tenure successfully. The good news is with the development of the academia, more and more Asian women scholars are willing to stand out and have a voice. They share their experience about fighting for tenure. Positive attitudes and successful cases encourage more and more Asian women, and they are brave to fight against the discrimination and fight for the equality. Because of the spread of COVID 19, many Asians are discriminated, for example, a doctor was told to go back to China; parents were refused care because of their Asian appearances. To fight against these discriminated cases, “members of the Asian American Commission stand together to protest against anti-Asian racism on the steps of the statehouse in Boston on March 12, 2020.” It is happy to see that most members participating this protest were women. 
image from: https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/04/09/racist-harassment-of-asian-health-care-workers-wont-cure-coronavirus/

Asian women more actively participate in the movements to fight for the right, which is helpful to improve the status in academia. 


Takeyama, A. (2020). Opening the Box: An International Asian Women Scholar’s fight. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

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