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In this final chapter I revisit the issues faced by AAs faculty at PWIs and examine how the participant testimonies draw connections to prior scholarship and theoretical frameworks from the data that was gathered from nine AA higher education faculty members. Just as Grace Park and Daniel Dae Kim postulated at the beginning of Chapter 5 about the future AA equity after experiencing unequal treatment, the voices of AA faculty have been heard through their testimonies in the prior chapter. There will be a discussion in this chapter on the findings in this book as it relates to reducing racist microaggressions for higher education institutions, administrators, faculty members, and policymakers. Most importantly, I will provide recommendations on the steps to bring more equity to AA faculty and future research.
“The recent mass murder of Asian Americans in Atlanta is only one of the thousands of racially motivated incidents against the AA (Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) community in the past year. Fueled by moronic politicians’ references to COVID-19 as the “China virus” or “kung flu,” hate crimes against Asian Americans increased in 2020 by 150 percent and, as daily attacks around the country show, it’s only getting worse.”
—Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 2021
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Wu, A. (2023). Conclusion: The Emergence of New Tokenism. In: Asian American Educators and Microaggressions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23459-0_6
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