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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.
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Table of contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER 1 ONLY HUMAN: MY EXPERIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
- CHAPTER 2 CONFESSIONS OF A BAKKE BABY: RACE, ACADEMIA, AND THE âJOSHUA GENERATIONâ
- CHAPTER 3 TAKING CHANCES: GAY, MALE AND FEMINIST IN THE ACADEMY
- CHAPTER 4 TENURED TO CONTINGENT: LIFE CHOICES AND THE ACADEMIC CAREER
- CHAPTER FIVE THE EVOLUTION OF TOLERANCE: GROWING UP AS A WHITE SOUTHERNER IN THE AFTERMATH OF DESEGREGATION
- CHAPTER 6 REFLECTIONS ON NAVIGATING INVISIBILITY AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF BEING BLACK AND GAY IN THE ACADEMY
- CHAPTER 7 REFLECTIONS UPON ONE EXPERIENCE LEADING TO A CAREER IN ACADEMIA
- CHAPTER 8 LIVING BEYOND THE DREAM DEFERRED: AN AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHY OF MY EXPERIENCES IN THE ACADEMY
- CHAPTER 9 IN SEARCH OF THE ABYSS: NEGOTIATING XTRA-ACADEMIC POTENTIAL
- CHAPTER 10 TEAM MOLLICK: OUR TWO-FOR-ONE ACADEMIC JOURNEY
- CHAPTER 11 MY ONGOING JOURNEY: A BLACK GENERATION X PROFESSOR'S STORY IN APPALACHIA
- CHAPTER 12 LEAVING THE POPULAR CULTURE CLASSROOM: WHY IâD RATHER KEEP MY FANDOM TO MYSELFâŚ
- CHAPTER 13 DOOGIE HOWSER, PH.D. IN IDENTITY CRISIS
- CHAPTER 14 CHANGING THE STATE OF TOMORROW TODAY: ONE GENERATION XERâ S JOURNEY TO END RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN THE ACADEMY AND BEYOND
- CHAPTER 15 HOPEFULLY DRIFTING
- CHAPTER 16 THE AFTERMATH OF ADMISSION
- CHAPTER 17 NOTES FROM AN IN-BETWEENER
- CONTRIBUTORS