Resilience : queer professors from the working class / edited by Kenneth Oldfield and Richard Greggory Johnson III.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oldfield, Kenneth.

Johnson, Richard Greggory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Education (Higher)--United States.

Working class.

Gay college teachers--United States--Social conditions.

Gay college teachers.

Social conditions.

Working class--Education (Higher).

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 254 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Summary:

Academia can be overwhelmingly foreign and hostile to those who have poor or working-class backgrounds. For people who are from the working class and also queer, the obstacles to earning a graduate degree may prove insurmountable. Frequently discouraged from attending college in the first place, these students often struggle to pay for their education while they simultaneously battle prejudice and discrimination because of their sexual orientation and blue collar backgrounds. Resilience offers inspiring personal stories of those who made it: thirteen professors and administrators provide their moving accounts of struggle, marginalization, and triumph in the accomplishments that their parents, guidance counselors, and sometimes even they themselves would have thought out of reach. These scholars write in a manner that will enable readers to reconsider their own assumptions and to empathize with the oppression that accompanies being defined as "other."

Contents:

2 Class, Sexuality, and Academia / Andrea R. Lehrermeier 7

3 Middle-Class Drag / Renny Christopher 25

4 From the Altar Boy's Robes to the Professor's Cap and Gown: The Journey of a Gay, Working-Class Academic / Timothy J. Quain 47

5 One in Ten: Teaching Tolerance for (Class) Difference, Ambiguity, and Queerness in the Culture Classroom / Denis M. Provencher 63

6 Flying the Coop: Liberation through Learning / Nancy Ciucevich Story 83

7 No More Rented Rooms / Bonnie R. Strickland 101

8 Escape from the Bronx: The Making of an Unlikely Leader / Richard Greggory Johnson III 115

9 My First Closet Was the Class Closet / Felice Yeskel 131

10 One Bad Lecture Away from Guarding a Bank: Identity as a Process / Michallene McDaniel 149

11 Becoming (Almost) One of Those "Damn, New York, Pinko Intellectuals" / Donald C. Barrett 171

12 Weaving the Self with Gender: Uniting Race, Sexual Orientation, and Social Class / Terell P. Lasane 195

13 Possibilities / Angelia R. Wilson 211

14 Hate Is Not a Family Value / Susan E. Borrego 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791476376

0791476375

9780791476383

0791476383

OCLC:

187300304