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UNINA9910787776303321 |
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Overcoming adversity in academia : stories from generation x faculty / / edited by Elwood Watson |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Monografia |
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OVERCOMING ADVERSITY IN ACADEMIA; Contents; Preface; 1. Only Human: My Experience in Higher Education; 2. Confessions of a Bakke Baby: Race, Academia, and the "Joshua Generation"; 3. Taking Chances: Gay, Male and Feminist in the Academy; 4. Tenured To Contingent: Life Choices and the Academic Career; 5. The Evolution of Tolerance: Growing Up as a White Southerner in the Aftermath of Desegregation; 6. Reflections on Navigating Invisibility and the Consequences of Being Black and Gay in the Academy; 7. Reflections Upon One Experience Leading To a Career in Academia |
8. Living Beyond The Dream Deferred: An Auto-Ethnography of My Experiences in the Academy9. In Search of the Abyss: Negotiating Xtra-Academic Potential; 10. Team Mollick: Our Two-For-One Academic Journey; 11. My Ongoing Journey: A Black Generation X Professor's Story; 12. Leaving the Popular Culture Classroom: Why I'd Rather Keep My Fandom to Myself...; 13. Doogie Howser, Ph.D. in Identity Crisis; 14. Changing the State of Tomorrow Today: One Generation Xer's Journey to End Racism and White Supremacy in the Academy and Beyond; 15. Hopefully Drifting; 16. The Aftermath of Admission |
17. Notes From An In-BetweenerContributors; Index |
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This collection of essays written by seventeen Generation X academics passionately, provocatively, and eloquently demonstrates the personal |
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issues, conflicts, and triumphs that are definitive of this generation. These essays define the voice of an often overlooked and ignored demographic. |
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