Fight the Tower
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Fight the Tower

Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy

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eBook - ePub

Fight the Tower

Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy

About this book

Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system.However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Fight the Tower: Women of Color in Academia Manifesto
  6. Prologue. Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy
  7. Part I: “Fear Is the Path to the Dark Side”: Introducing the Fight
  8. Part II: “That’s No Moon!”: Attack of the Institution
  9. Part III: “You Are Unwise to Lower Your Defenses”: The Phantom Menace
  10. Part IV: “Do. Or Do Not. There Is No Try”: Radical Love as Pedagogy and Practice
  11. Part V: The Academic Awakens: “We Are One with the Force and the Force Is One with Us”
  12. Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke
  13. Epilogue. Upward and Onward: Asian American Women’s Legal Resistance
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes on Contributors
  16. Index