Xiya Shi ASA002 A03 week10

Xiya Shi
week10

Looking back, those ten weeks reading of “Fight the Tower” gives me enlightenment about actual actions and efforts that many scholars made to build harmonious, fair academia, and rebel against the social engineering construction. In the chapter “Conclusion: Academics Awaken:
Power, Resistance, and Being Woke”, Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis turn research into actions and clear that scholars who fight for creating a better education environment must value that what brings them together and forges human connection across boundaries over borders but beyond hierarchies. This ending also advocates that more colleagues be brave enough to share their past experiences, reveal more truths, fight for their rights, and even demand policy change within and beyond the university.

One of my favorite sayings is that “we are the spark that will light the fire that will burn the first order down.” Since the changes in academia will not happen overnight, it requires each individual’s insisting efforts to ignites change. Combining with what I learned from ASA002, I will keep focusing on ethnic studies and women and gender studies. I believe that more and more Asian Amerian women scholars and students will stand out and be brave enough to share their stories and continuously contribute more to building satisfying academia without discrimination and injustice.

References

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

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