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ISBN-10: 1978806361
ISBN-13: 9781978806368
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 10/11/2019
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 1.10" H

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

Editor: Wei Ming Dariotis

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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.

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"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"
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ISBN-10: 1978806361
ISBN-13: 9781978806368
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 10/11/2019
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 6.00" W, 1.10" H
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