Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde ,
Wei Ming Dariotis ,
Shirley Hune ,
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9781978806375
ISBN 10: 197880637
Pages: 492
Publication Date: 11 October 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Fight the Tower is engaging. Readers will immerse themselves in the lives of these authors, will readily find their own lives in these courageous narratives, and will find nurturing and applicable guidance. | A searing indictment of the oppressive working conditions encountered by Asian American women faculty and graduate students, and an inspiring chronicle of the struggles for liberation. This insightful volume should be read by everyone-including aspiring academics, junior and senior faculty, and university leaders.
""Fight the Tower is engaging. Readers will immerse themselves in the lives of these authors, will readily find their own lives in these courageous narratives, and will find nurturing and applicable guidance."" - Yolanda Flores Niemann (co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia) ""Fight the Tower is engaging. Readers will immerse themselves in the lives of these authors, will readily find their own lives in these courageous narratives, and will find nurturing and applicable guidance."" - Yolanda Flores Niemann (co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia) ""A searing indictment of the oppressive working conditions encountered by Asian American women faculty and graduate students, and an inspiring chronicle of the struggles for liberation. This insightful volume should be read by everyone-including aspiring academics, junior and senior faculty, and university leaders."" - Carmen Gonzalez (co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia) ""A searing indictment of the oppressive working conditions encountered by Asian American women faculty and graduate students, and an inspiring chronicle of the struggles for liberation. This insightful volume should be read by everyone-including aspiring academics, junior and senior faculty, and university leaders."" - Carmen Gonzalez (co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia) ""Selected New Books on Higher Education,"" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247595 (Chronicle of Higher Education) ""Selected New Books on Higher Education,"" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247595 (Chronicle of Higher Education) ""Recommended."" (Choice) ""Recommended."" (Choice) ""Fight the Tower explicitly challenges readers to action from the opening Women of Color in Academia Manifesto to the conclusion: turn research into action and join the movement to build a new academy of liberatory education that models and “fosters the kind of respect and empathy upon which social justice is built.” (International Examiner) ""Fight the Tower explicitly challenges readers to action from the opening Women of Color in Academia Manifesto to the conclusion: turn research into action and join the movement to build a new academy of liberatory education that models and “fosters the kind of respect and empathy upon which social justice is built.” (International Examiner)
"""Fight the Tower is engaging. Readers will immerse themselves in the lives of these authors, will readily find their own lives in these courageous narratives, and will find nurturing and applicable guidance."" -- Yolanda Flores Niemann * co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia * ""A searing indictment of the oppressive working conditions encountered by Asian American women faculty and graduate students, and an inspiring chronicle of the struggles for liberation. This insightful volume should be read by everyone—including aspiring academics, junior and senior faculty, and university leaders."" -- Carmen Gonzalez * co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia * ""Selected New Books on Higher Education,"" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247595 * Chronicle of Higher Education * ""Recommended."" * Choice * ""Fight the Tower explicitly challenges readers to action from the opening Women of Color in Academia Manifesto to the conclusion: turn research into action and join the movement to build a new academy of liberatory education that models and “fosters the kind of respect and empathy upon which social justice is built.” * International Examiner *"
"""Fight the Tower is engaging. Readers will immerse themselves in the lives of these authors, will readily find their own lives in these courageous narratives, and will find nurturing and applicable guidance.""|""A searing indictment of the oppressive working conditions encountered by Asian American women faculty and graduate students, and an inspiring chronicle of the struggles for liberation. This insightful volume should be read by everyone—including aspiring academics, junior and senior faculty, and university leaders."""
A searing indictment of the oppressive working conditions encountered by Asian American women faculty and graduate students, and an inspiring chronicle of the struggles for liberation. This insightful volume should be read by everyone--including aspiring academics, junior and senior faculty, and university leaders. --Carmen Gonzalez co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Fight the Tower is engaging. Readers will immerse themselves in the lives of these authors, will readily find their own lives in these courageous narratives, and will find nurturing and applicable guidance. --Yolanda Flores Niemann co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
Author Information
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.
