Yicheng Wang, ASA2 A02, Week 6

After I finished reading “An International Asian Woman Scholar’s Fight”, feelings of anger rapidly arises with despair at first; when the case gradually being solved, it’s grateful for me to find how powerful the cohesion force to fight for something unfair can be, and how meaningful for an university to set Asian American Studies Department. Without the unity of that department, case wouldn’t be reversed. They are a group of people who really did lots of research of Asian American; they thoroughly know the professional potential of their department’s faculties the most; they are a group of people with fully passion to fight the tower - fight for their right to be treated equally. At the time professor Takeyama, an anthropology scholar from Japan, knew she was going to be suspended for her tenure application for more than six months and the possibility of being rejected was almost 100%. I cannot bear that university took anthropology professor doing additional advising, mentoring and emotional work with addition to teach in her professional field for granted just due to her accent, color and gender,  let alone professor Takeyama herself. It was not a fair game. There’s another word she mentioned impressed me a lot, “International faculty have been increasingly part of U.S. academic landscape, but little is known about their experiences in academia. Perform a search on data about them, and most of what you will find is on international students.” Invisible doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. We must avoid such a pandemic in academia by means of constructing a more solid Asian American Department in universities.

Question: Will people who discriminated Asian American being punished?

Reference: Valverde, Kieu-Linh Caroline, and Wei Ming Dariotis. Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press, 2020.

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