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After reading this week’s reading, “Care Work: The Invisible Labor of Asian American Women,”
Written by Wei Ming Dariotis and Grace J. Yoo, this reading reveals that other groups of people have stereotypes toward Asian American women in the academy. People naturally perceive Asian women as willing to perform emotional care works. This article’s content reminds me of the last week’s reading. Combining two readings, I noticed that in academia, Asian American women’s faculties had to pay extra time, money, and effort to succeed. Findings also reveal that Asian American women often need to do uncompensated or unrewarded care work because of stereotypes of Asian American women as caregivers. Therefore, under such oppression, Asian American women had to accept others’ definitions of them. By relating to the article “Attack on the Spirit by the “Rational World” (and Spiritual Recovery from It).”Rani Neutill. “How to Leave Academia,” Asian American women scholars will feel they do not belong in academia. Finally, they amplify the sense that academia is not rational. It’s obvious that people have those stereotypes because they always focus on only a small group of Asian American women scholars. For instance, in the department of communication or Asian American studies, their education purpose is understanding individuals’ thoughts and give care and better social services to the community. It’s wrong that guiding the biased public thinking that Asian American women have the responsibility to do such care work because of their race of color.
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
Rosenberg, Amanda. “Hiding My Mental Illness from My Asian Family Almost Killed Me.” Vox, Vox, 18 June 2018, www.vox.com/first-person/2018/6/18/17464574/asian-chinese-community-mental-health-illness.
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