Fight the Tower : Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy /

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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 construc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ano, Vera-Loz (Contribuidor), Dariotis, Wei Ming (Contribuidor, Editor ), Davis Cross, Mai'a K. (Contribuidor), Deloso, Shannon (Contribuidor), Erin O'Brien, Genevieve (Contribuidor), Esaki, Brett J. (Contribuidor), Hune, Shirley (Contribuidor), Huynh, Cindy Nhi (Contribuidor), Junn, Jane (Contribuidor), Magalit Rodriguez, Robyn (Contribuidor), Mai, Jing (Contribuidor), Ming Dariot, Wei (Contribuidor), Ming Dariotis, Wei (Contribuidor), Mouavangsou, Kaozong N. (Contribuidor), Neutill, Rani (Contribuidor), Nhi Huynh, Cindy (Contribuidor), Nie, Melissa-Ann (Contribuidor), Nievera-Lozano, Melissa-Ann (Contribuidor), Noh, Eliza (Contribuidor), O'Brien, Genevieve Erin (Contribuidor), P, W (Contribuidor), Pham, Cara Maffini (Contribuidor), Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit (Contribuidor), Takeyama, Akiko (Contribuidor), Tintiangco-Cubales, Allyson (Contribuidor), Valverde, Kieu Linh Caroline (Contribuidor, Editor ), Yee, Melody (Contribuidor), Yoo, Grace J. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Asian American women college teachers > Social conditions.
College teachers > Tenure > United States.
Discrimination in higher education > United States.
EDUCATION / General.
Asian-American women scholars, Asian-American women, gender, education, marginalization, intersectionality, race, academia, rights, gender equity, gender equality, social justice, Fight the Tower movement, intersectional injustice, Asian American studies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Fight the Tower: Women of Color in Academia Manifesto
  • Prologue. Taking Action: Asian American Faculty against Injustices in the Academy
  • Part I. "Fear Is the Path to the Dark Side": Introducing the Fight
  • Introducing the Fight
  • Waking
  • Introduction. "The Time to Fight Is Now": Asian American Women, Academia's Socially Engineered "Privileged Oppressed," Go Rogue
  • Part II. "That's No Moon!"
  • Attack of the Institution
  • Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim?
  • 1. Unpacking the Master's Plan: Asian American Women Resisting the Language of Academic Imperialism
  • 2. Investigating Discrimination: Injustice against Women of Color in the Academy
  • . Killing Machine: Exposing the Health Threats to Asian American Women Scholars in Academia
  • Part III. "You Are Unwise to Lower Your Defenses"
  • The Phantom Menace
  • The Cost of Speaking
  • 4. Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students' Negotiating Power in Academia
  • 5. Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation of and by Hmong Americans
  • 6. An Offering: Healing the Wounds and Ruptures of Graduate School
  • 7. Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar's Fight
  • 8. How to Leave Academia
  • Part IV. "Do. Or Do Not. There Is No Try"
  • Radical Love as Pedagogy and Practice
  • She Shall Not Be Moved
  • 9. Attack on the Spirit by the "Rational World" (and Spiritual Recovery from It)
  • 10. Care Work: The Invisible Labor of Asian American Women in Academia
  • 11. Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis
  • 12. Mothering Is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy (Pedagogy of Care)
  • 13. Resistance Is Not Futile: From #adjuncthustle to Hell Yeah!
  • 14. Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian American Studies
  • Part V The Academic Awakens
  • "We Are One with the Force and the Force Is One with Us"
  • My Kintsuki
  • Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke
  • Epilogue. Upward and Onward: Asian American Women's Legal Resistance
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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