Reading 1: AIWA
AIWA was created in 1983 to focus on the Asian immigrant women working in low-paying jobs in this area of California.
What is the (San Francisco) Bay Area?
This harmful stereotype depicts AAPIs as "exemplary over-achievers," causing educators to ignore their actual social and academic challenges.
What is the Model Minority stereotype?
What is the Model Minority myth?
What is the community transformational organizing strategy (CTOS)?
According to the summary, this term refers to the active process of "negating, interrupting, and contesting" dominant knowledge.
What is disorienting?
This is what Keo means when she says educational systems were “never designed” for people with her race, ethnicity, and gender. (Regular answer)
The systems were built around dominant (white, male) norms and create barriers for women and people of color.
This scholar coined the term "intersectionality" in a pair of law review articles in 1989 and 1991.
Who is Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw?
This framework is used when researchers study how an AAPI student's experience is shaped by both their race AND their gender or social class.
What is intersectionality?
This is how equity conversations can unintentionally exclude AAPI students. (Regular answer)
By focusing only on certain racial comparisons and not disaggregating data, which makes Southeast Asian students invisible.
In 1996, AIWA's Justice for Garment Workers Campaign resulted in AIWA and this clothing retailer signing a cooperative agreement that established a hotline for US garment workers as well as a garment workers' education fund.
What is Jessica McClintock?
Coloma notes that AAPI history is shaped by these five political statuses (name at least three).
What are immigrants, citizens, aliens, colonized nationals, or refugees?
This is why Keo describes leadership as requiring "armor." (Regular answer)
Leaders of color face constant “othering,” bias, and structural barriers, and need resilience to navigate those spaces.
AIWA launched this campaign to convince garment shops to upgrade their workstations to alleviate chronic pain experienced while working.
What is the ERGO campaign?
This framework moves away from using "whiteness" as the standard and instead looks at the connections between different communities of color.
What is the comparative framework?
This is what it may look like to disrupt a system while still working inside it. (Regular answer)
Sharing counter-narratives, challenging racial pitting, making space for others at the table, and using policy and funding decisions to promote equity.