Transforming the ivory tower
Subtitle: challenging racism, sexism, and homophobia in the academy
By: edited by Brett C. Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico
Series: Intersections; Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780824835262
Subjects: Homophobia in higher education; Racism in higher education; Sexism in higher education; Discrimination in higher education
Description: Transforming the Ivory Tower builds on the rich legacy of historical struggles to open universities to dissenting voices and oppressed groups. Each chapter is guided by a commitment to praxis the idea that theoretical understandings of inequality must be applied to concrete strategies for change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ivory tower paradox : higher education as a site of oppression and resistance / Brett C. Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico; title: Transforming the place that rewards and oppresses us / Rick Bonus; title: Telling our stories, naming ourselves : the lost María in the academy / Christina Gómez; title: Striving to be queer : challenging inequality from positions of privilege / Michael Armato; title: One activist intellectual's experience in surviving and transforming the academy / Jose Guillermo Zapata Calderon; title: Activist-scholar alliances for social change : the transformative power of university-community collaborations / David Naguib Pellow; title: Transformative disjunctures in the academy : Asian American studies as praxis / Linda Trinh Võ; title: Queering the ivory tower : tales of a troublemaking homosexual / Brett C. Stockdill.