ASA2 A03
Week6 Blog
May 3, 2020
The more I read through the book, the more desperate and pressing I feel about the authors' intentions and Asian Americans' future in international academia. Even though Akiko Takeyama is using a sober tone to describe the objective fact that the university is not treating Asian American female faculty fairly, she brings up more harmful even "fatal" consequences of this unfair treating. What she is experiencing is not common for other Asian American scholars. Sadly, other people may even lose their tenure-track jobs.
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In the process of social engineering, Asian Americans are treated like machines to be manipulated and fulfill specific functions. In academia, governments and colleges oppress the minority group in the name of offering privilege. Just as Akiko Takeyama mentions in the article, "in this structural power dynamic, the university can easily take advantage of untenured faculty members' obedience and justify their current distress as a necessary gateway to become a tenured member and to safeguard academic freedom and job security." Universities no longer execute their initial propose and function. Instead, they choose to maximize their profits by standing at the opposite of the vulnerable minority group. When Akiko asks her lawyer how to fight back and re-earn the tenure originally belonged to her. The lawyer indicates that "a lawsuit would only make the situation worse and be detrimental when we took into account that the university would most likely try to protect itself rather than openly talk with" her. It is so hypocritical that even the workplace she gives it all away betrays her, and laws even cannot protect her as a minority racial group female.
Reference:
Valverde, K. L. C. (2019, October 11). Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books/
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