Overcoming adversity in academia : stories from generation x faculty / / edited by Elwood Watson

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.2
• Soggetto topico: Generation X; Demography
• Altri autori: WatsonElwood
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Overcoming adversity in academia
• ISBN: 0-7618-6140-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787776303321
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