Yvonne Chen, ASA 02 A01, week 9

According to “Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis”, Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano points out that painful experiences race, class, and gender can finally result in an unstable growth of people's personal–political identity. I used to think of painful experiences as something that no one should mention. The reason is that those experiences hurt us a lot and we don't want others to see our wound, and don't want ourselves to be painful again. However, Nievera-Lozano gives me a new perspective on this problem. I realize that some wounds won't heal completely if you just want to hide them. We should bravely face them and try to make us stronger. As I have known some painful experiences and unequal treatments of Asian Americas in previous content of this book, so I think their growth is even more precious. I'm so proud and happy that those weapons others used to hurt them can be their own weapon to protect themselves and become a better human. There growing personal-political identity helps them speaking out their experiences and share them with others. So that people will know more about the Asian Americas and reduce their stereotypes towards them. I have a question that whether people know more about Asian Americas with their hardworking?


Reference:
1. 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.