03073nam 2200589 450 991046343530332120200520144314.00-7618-6140-8(CKB)2670000000491081(EBL)1577405(OCoLC)865333954(SSID)ssj0001165270(PQKBManifestationID)11650643(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001165270(PQKBWorkID)11198516(PQKB)10417605(MiAaPQ)EBC1577405(Au-PeEL)EBL1577405(CaPaEBR)ebr10815261(CaONFJC)MIL550940(OCoLC)871193982(EXLCZ)99267000000049108120131218d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOvercoming adversity in academia stories from generation x faculty /edited by Elwood WatsonLanham, Maryland :University Press of America,2014.©20141 online resource (272 p.)Includes index.0-7618-6139-4 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 Academia8. 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 Admission17. Notes From An In-BetweenerContributors; IndexThis collection of essays written by seventeen Generation X academics passionately, provocatively, and eloquently demonstrates the personal issues, conflicts, and triumphs that are definitive of this generation. These essays define the voice of an often overlooked and ignored demographic.Generation XDemographyElectronic books.Generation X.Demography.305.2Watson Elwood927612MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463435303321Overcoming adversity in academia2084043UNINA