This week, I read “Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke”, which wrote by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis. This article is the last chapter of the book, “Fight the Tower”, which is a good conclusion for the book and is good ending suggestions about Asian American discrimination. This article focuses on “turning research into action and the creation of movements for change through which academia may become a place of truth-seeking and equitable teaching and learning”.
In the article, the author mentioned that “I choose to live for my people”. Our people are Asian American women, fellow academics of all genders and races, the larger community of academia, and of course the communities that we serve. To “live for our people” is the same as fortifying ourselves to fight for our people. We should fight for ourselves, our colleagues, students, and families, instead of being silent. We have to make some changes, for example, we should confront the reality of the academic system instead of academics with a “rational world” of fake reward, and we should be being woke to grow more equitable and just and ultimately more meritorious.
Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline, Wei Ming Dariotis. Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press, 2020
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