Fight the tower : Asian American women scholars' resistance and renewal in the academy / edited by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

Unpacking the master's plan: Asian American women resisting the language of academic imperialism / Eliza Noh -- Investigating discrimination: injustice against women of color in the academy / Jane Junn and Mai'a K. Davis Cross -- Killing machine: exposing the health threats to Asian American women scholars in academia / Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde, Cara Maffini Pham, Melody Yee, and Jing Mai -- Precariously positioned: Asian American women students' negotiating power in academia / Shannon Deloso -- Hmong does not mean free: the miseducation of and by Hmong Americans / Kaozong N. Mouavangsou -- An offering: healing the wounds and ruptures of graduate school / Cindy Nhi Huynh -- Opening the box: an international Asian women scholar's fight / Akiko Takeyama -- How to leave academia / Rani Neutill -- Attack on the spirit by the "rational world" (and spiritual recovery from it) / Brett J. Esaki -- Care work: the invisible labor of Asian American women in academia / Wei Ming Dariotis and Grace J. Yoo -- Pain + love = growth: the labor of Pinayist pedagogical praxis / Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano -- Mothering is liberation: giving birth to Alagaan pedagogy (pedagogy of care) / Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales -- Resistance is not futile: from #adjuncthustle to hell yeah! / Genevieve Erin O'Brien -- Academic symbiosis: a manifesto on tenure and promotion in Asian American studies / Wei Ming Dariotis

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