TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ano,Vera-Loz
AU  - Dariotis,Wei Ming
AU  - Davis Cross,Mai’a K.
AU  - Deloso,Shannon
AU  - Erin O’Brien,Genevieve
AU  - Esaki,Brett J.
AU  - Hune,Shirley
AU  - Huynh,Cindy Nhi
AU  - Junn,Jane
AU  - Magalit Rodriguez,Robyn
AU  - Mai,Jing
AU  - Ming Dariot,Wei
AU  - Ming Dariotis,Wei
AU  - Mouavangsou,Kaozong N.
AU  - Neutill,Rani
AU  - Nhi Huynh,Cindy
AU  - Nie,Melissa-Ann
AU  - Nievera-Lozano,Melissa-Ann
AU  - Noh,Eliza
AU  - O’Brien,Genevieve Erin
AU  - P,W
AU  - Pham,Cara Maffini
AU  - Rodriguez,Robyn Magalit
AU  - Takeyama,Akiko
AU  - Tintiangco-Cubales,Allyson
AU  - Valverde,Kieu Linh Caroline
AU  - Yee,Melody
AU  - Yoo,Grace J.
TI  - Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy 
SN  - 9781978806405
AV  - LC2633.6 .F54 2020
U1  - 378.1/982995073 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Asian American women college teachers
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - College teachers
KW  - Tenure
KW  - United States
KW  - Discrimination in higher education
KW  - EDUCATION / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 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
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978806405
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978806405
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978806405/original
ER  -