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The Politics of Survival in Academia
Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success
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The Politics of Survival in Academia
Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success
About this book
This volume presents the personal accounts of African American, Asian American, and Latino faculty who use "narratives of struggles" to describe the challenges they faced in order to become bona fide members of the U.S. Academy. These narratives show how survival and success require a sophisticated knowledge of the politics of academia, insider knowledge of the requirements of legitimacy in scholarly efforts, and resourceful approach to facing dilemmas between cultural values, traditional racist practices, and academic resilience.
The book also explores the empowerment process of these individuals who have created a new self without rejecting their "enduring" self, the self strongly connected to their ethno/racial cultures and groups. Within the process of self -redefinition, this new faculty confronted racism, sexism, rejection, the clash of cultural values, and structural indifference to cultural diversity. The faculty recounts how they ultimately learned the skillful accommodation to all of these issues.
It is through the analysis of survival and self-definition that women and faculty of color will establish a powerful foothold in the new academy of the twenty-first century.
The book also explores the empowerment process of these individuals who have created a new self without rejecting their "enduring" self, the self strongly connected to their ethno/racial cultures and groups. Within the process of self -redefinition, this new faculty confronted racism, sexism, rejection, the clash of cultural values, and structural indifference to cultural diversity. The faculty recounts how they ultimately learned the skillful accommodation to all of these issues.
It is through the analysis of survival and self-definition that women and faculty of color will establish a powerful foothold in the new academy of the twenty-first century.
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Yes, you can access The Politics of Survival in Academia by Lila Jacobs,José Cintrón,Cecil E. Canton in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Higher Education. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Immigration and the Transnational Experience Series Editors: Enrique (Henry) T. Trueba, Pedro Reyes, and Yali Zou
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface - The Politics of Survival in Academia: Narratives of Inequity, Resiliency, and Success
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One - Redefining the Self: From AFDC to Ph.D.
- Chapter Two - From Slaveship to Scholarship: A Narrative of the Political and Social Transformation of an African American Educator
- Chapter Three - Hanging In: The Journey to Good Enough
- Chapter Four - Disabling Institutions
- Chapter Five - Reflecting on the Games of Academia: A View from “the Porch”
- Chapter Six - Academic Adversity and Faculty Warriors: Prevailing amidst Trauma
- Chapter Seven - A Chinese American Woman’s Struggle for Success and Self-Discovery in the Academy
- Chapter Eight - Transnational Linkages in Asian American Studies as Sources and Strategies for Teaching and Curricular Change
- References
- Index
- About the Contributors