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Subject: Letter from an Ivy League Professor (August 20, 1918)

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Date: 2018-08-22

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Dear Dr. Woo,

I certainly wish the Harvard students well in their lawsuit, but as Louis points out, even with their Harvard degrees they will face discrimination in their future jobs.

Personality factors are a subtle means of discrimination that are used by white academics and their minority supporters to dismiss Asian American faculty. I speak from experience as a former part-time faculty member in a distance-learning program in a progressive college. After receiving a positive evaluation from an all-white committee, the chair wrote of her intention to dismiss me. The faculty then wrote a second evaluation with Asian American stereotypes labeling me as quiet, lacking leadership, and teaching in a prescriptive manner although I have rave student evaluations. One peer evaluator wrote that my family values of discipline and hard work were incompatible with the values of the program.

I took my case to federal court and sued the college for discrimination and retaliation. I wrote research papers about Asian American stereotypes and sent them to my lawyer. He withheld my reports as well as important evidence and case law from the court and lost my case.

I am pursuing my case and will also use a pseudonym. As Dr. Derald Wing Sue said, “Minorities are punished for expressing themselves.”

								Jean

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Message ID: #16
Subject: Letter from an Ivy League Professor (August 20, 1918)
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Date: 2018-08-23
This message is a follow-up of: #15
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Dear Another Anonymous:
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WHY ARE WE SO AFRAID? PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF US COULD SENSE OUR FEAR, AND ARE THEREFORE ENCOURAGED TO STEP ON US. Here is my academic experience. I was an Asset. Prof. when I organized a Union (collective bargaining) at the U. of Delaware. After a campus-wide vote, I became the founding president of the Faculty Union, its chief spokesperson and chief negotiator. A few years later, I was appointed by DE's governor to be a Trustee of the same univ.. I receive some threats, none was carried out. Later I ran and became Lt. Governor of DE. Stand up for yourself, 80-20’ll help. SB
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