Fight the Tower

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.

• ContentsPrologue: Taking Action: Asian American Faculty Against Injustices in the AcademyShirley HuneSection I: “Fear is the Path to the Dark Side”: Introducing The FightWakingWPIntroduction: “The Time to Fight is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go RogueKieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming DariotisSection 2: “That’s No Moon!”: Attack of the InstitutionWho Killed Soek-Fang Sim?WPChapter 1: Unpacking the Master’s Plan: Asian American Women Resisting the Language of Academic ImperialismEliza NohChapter 2: Investigating Discrimination: Injustice Against Women of Color in the AcademyJane Junn and Mai’a K. Davis CrossChapter 3: Killing Machine: Exposing the Health Threats to Asian American Women Scholars in AcademiaKieu Linh Caroline Valverde, Cara Maffini Pham, Melody Yee, and Jing MaiSection 3: “You Are Unwise to Lower Your Defenses”: The Phantom MenaceThe Cost of SpeakingWPChapter 4: Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students Negotiating Power in AcademiaShannon DelosoChapter 5: Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation Of and By Hmong AmericansKaozong N. MouavangsouChapter 6: An Offering: Healing the Wounds and Ruptures of Graduate SchoolCindy Nhi HuynhChapter 7: Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar’s FightAkiko TakeyamaChapter 8: How to Leave AcademiaRani NeutillSection 4: “Do. Or Do Not. There is No Try”: Radical Love as Pedagogy and PracticeShe Shall Not Be MovedWPChapter 9: Attack on the Spirit by the “Rational World” (and Spiritual Recovery from It)Brett J. EsakiChapter 10: Care Work: The Invisible Labor of Asian American Women in AcademiaWei Ming Dariotis and Grace J. YooChapter 11: Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical PraxisMelissa-Ann Nievera-LozanoChapter 12: Mothering is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy (Pedagogy of Care)Allyson Tintiangco-CubalesChapter 13: Resistance is Not Futile: From #adjuncthustle to Hell Yeah!Genevieve Erin O’BrienChapter 14: Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian American StudiesWei Ming DariotisSection 5: The Academic Awakens: “We Are One with the Force and the Force is One with Us”Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being WokeWei Ming Dariotis  and Kieu Linh Caroline ValverdeMy KintsukiWPEpilogue: Upward and Onward: Asian American Women’s Legal ResistanceRobyn RodriguezNotes on ContributorsIndex

"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)