The politics of survival in academia : narratives of inequity, resilience, and success / edited by Lila Jacobs, José Cintrón, and Cecil E. Canton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobs, Lila.

Cintrón, José, 1953-

Canton, Cecil E., 1946-

Series:

Immigration and the transnational experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority college teachers--United States--Case studies.

Minority college teachers.

Discrimination in higher education--United States--Case studies.

Discrimination in higher education.

Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States--Case studies.

Minorities.

Minorities--Education (Higher).

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 171 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Redefining the Self: From AFDC to Ph.D. / Lila Jacobs 1

Chapter 2 From Slaveship to Scholarship: A Narrative of the Political and Social Transformation of an African American Educator / Cecil E. Canton 15

Chapter 3 Hanging In: The Journey to Good Enough / Eugenia D. Cowan 33

Chapter 4 Disabling Institutions / Concha Delgado-Gaitan 57

Chapter 5 Reflecting on the Games of Academia: A View from "the Proch" / Myriam N. Torres 77

Chapter 6 Academic Adversity and Faculty Warriors: Prevailing amidst Trauma / Chalsa M. Loo, Maria Chun 95

Chapter 7 A Chinese American Woman's Struggle for Success and Self-Discovery in the Academy / Yali Zou 125

Chapter 8 Transnational Linkages in Asian American Studies as Sources and Strategies for Teaching and Curricular Change / Peter Nien-chu Kiang 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index.

ISBN:

0742523683

0742523691

OCLC:

49681460