LEADER 03040nam 2200577 450 001 9910787776303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7618-6140-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000491081 035 $a(EBL)1577405 035 $a(OCoLC)865333954 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001165270 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11650643 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001165270 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11198516 035 $a(PQKB)10417605 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1577405 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1577405 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10815261 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL550940 035 $a(OCoLC)871193982 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000491081 100 $a20131218d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aOvercoming adversity in academia $estories from generation x faculty /$fedited by Elwood Watson 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cUniversity Press of America,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7618-6139-4 327 $aOVERCOMING 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 327 $a8. 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 327 $a17. Notes From An In-BetweenerContributors; Index 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aGeneration X 606 $aDemography 615 0$aGeneration X. 615 0$aDemography. 676 $a305.2 701 $aWatson$b Elwood$01466816 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787776303321 996 $aOvercoming adversity in academia$93677456 997 $aUNINA