Fight the Tower

Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
Herausgeber: Valverde, Kieu Linh Caroline; Dariotis, Wei Ming

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Produktbeschreibung

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. These essays provide portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781978806368
• ISBN-10: 1978806361
• Artikelnr.: 56150954

Autorenporträt

Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde is an associate professor of Asian American studies and the founding director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora and co-founder of the social justice movement, Fight the Tower. Wei Ming Dariotis is a professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and co-author of the definition of critical mixed race studies.   

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Prologue: Taking Action: Asian American Faculty Against Injustices in the
Academy
Shirley Hune
Section I: “Fear is the Path to the Dark Side”: Introducing The Fight
Waking
WP
Introduction: “The Time to Fight is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s
Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue
Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis
Section 2: “That’s No Moon!”: Attack of the Institution
Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim?
WP
Chapter 1: Unpacking the Master’s Plan: Asian American Women Resisting the
Language of Academic Imperialism
Eliza Noh
Chapter 2: Investigating Discrimination: Injustice Against Women of Color
in the Academy
Jane Junn and Mai’a K. Davis Cross
Chapter 3: 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
Section 3: “You Are Unwise to Lower Your Defenses”: The Phantom Menace
The Cost of Speaking
WP
Chapter 4: Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students
Negotiating Power in Academia
Shannon Deloso
Chapter 5: Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation Of and By Hmong
Americans
Kaozong N. Mouavangsou
Chapter 6: An Offering: Healing the Wounds and Ruptures of Graduate School
Cindy Nhi Huynh
Chapter 7: Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar’s Fight
Akiko Takeyama
Chapter 8: How to Leave Academia
Rani Neutill
Section 4: “Do. Or Do Not. There is No Try”: Radical Love as Pedagogy and
Practice
She Shall Not Be Moved
WP
Chapter 9: Attack on the Spirit by the “Rational World” (and Spiritual
Recovery from It)
Brett J. Esaki
Chapter 10: Care Work: The Invisible Labor of Asian American Women in
Academia
Wei Ming Dariotis and Grace J. Yoo
Chapter 11: Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis
Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano
Chapter 12: Mothering is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy
(Pedagogy of Care)
Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales
Chapter 13: Resistance is Not Futile: From #adjuncthustle to Hell Yeah!
Genevieve Erin O’Brien
Chapter 14: Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in
Asian American Studies
Wei Ming Dariotis
Section 5: The Academic Awakens: “We Are One with the Force and the Force
is One with Us”
Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke
Wei Ming Dariotis  and Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde
My Kintsuki
WP
Epilogue: Upward and Onward: Asian American Women’s Legal Resistance
Robyn Rodriguez
Notes on Contributors
Index