Not white/straight/male/healthy enough
Subtitle: being "other" in the academy
By: edited by Michael Moreno, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez and Michele Shaul
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781527524002; 9781527513211
Subjects: Minorities in higher education; Racism in higher education; Minorités dans l'enseignement supérieur; Racisme dans l'enseignement supérieur; EDUCATION; Higher
Description: Every fall, a new crop of college freshmen arrives on campuses eager to acquire skills that will prepare them for the workplace, to join organizations that support causes they care about, and to establish meaningful relationships with their peers. Less visible are the new professors who aspire to make a difference in students lives, make ground-breaking discoveries, publish scholarship that influences their fields and forge lifelong collaborations with colleagues. Most importantly, these students and faculty seek acceptance beyond admittance and employment. While this desire for acceptance is universal, there is no guarantee of achieving it. For some, simply settling in often is not possible. This anthology discloses the experiences of members of the academic community who know this fight all too well. By taking a deep dive into the minds and hearts of students and faculty members who identify as other and by disclosing their awkward, funny and painful experiences, this book aims to caution newcomers to the academy, to equip teachers to identify and discuss inequity in the classroom, to call out perpetrators and perpetuators of injustice, and to provoke change, if not in the academic community as a whole then in each individual reader. Recognizing that the case for doing and being better cannot be made with statistics alone, this book uses storytelling to bring to light the impact of discrimination on a very personal level. The writers in this collection put their stories out there to remind readers that others like them suffer in silence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Entrances and exits (to the Academy). Academic rock star / Rachel Burgess; title: Paralysis / Demelza Champagne; title: The Gaga book proposal / Tamara MC; title: The elephant in the room / Donna Marie Peter, Elizabeth L. Sweet, Karen M. Turner and Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon; title: Amita / Valerie Sweeney Prince; title: Institutionalized prejudice. The subversive act of being an academic of color : redefining knowledge to change (the) US / Kathryn Quinn-Sanchez; title: Threat / Johnson Cheu; title: That little Catholic college for girls / Marion Deutsche Cohen; title: Strategizing beyond survival : living with chronic illness as a woman of color Ph. D. student / Karen Buenavista Hanna; title: A time of fecund opportunity / Joanne M. Marinelli; title: Donald Trump's rhetoric is going to get us killed / Michael A. Moreno; title: The neuroatypical professor / Anonymous; title: Epilogue : we met pregnant at the snack bar / Michele Shaul.