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Becoming a footnote : an activist-scholar finds his voice, learns to write, and survives academia / Sanford F. Schram.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schram, Sanford.
- Series:
- SUNY series in new political science
- SUNY series in New Political Science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social scientists--United States--Biography.
- Social scientists.
- Political activists--United States--Biography.
- Political activists.
- College teachers--New York (State)--Biography.
- College teachers.
- Scholars--United States--Biography.
- Scholars.
- Social sciences--Study and teaching.
- Social sciences.
- Social problems--Study and teaching.
- Social problems.
- Schram, Sanford.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Humorous and witty recollections of the author's journey from insecure graduate student to noted activist/scholar.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One: How I Had Four Majors in College
- Chapter Two: Going Postal, Getting Drafted: How I Ended Up in Graduate School
- Chapter Three: How I Learned To Read
- How I Learned to Think
- How I Learned to Write
- Chapter Four: I Went Down to the Crossroads: Activism and Scholarship
- An Academic Crossroads: From Political Gerontology to Welfare Politics
- Chapter Five: Standing on Shoulders: Scholarship as Networking
- The Threesome
- Getting Mentored
- It Takes a Village
- Words of Welfare
- Do I Have to Paint a Picture?
- Chapter Six: Theory and Practice: Research and the Court
- Welfare Migration
- Re‑narrating Welfare Migration: A Statistical Project
- Revisiting Schram, Nitz, and Krueger
- Chapter Seven: Is Anybody Listening? Testifying before Congress
- A Minor Distraction from the Modest Proposal
- Testifying: A Question of Discourse
- A State‑Type Thing
- Chapter Eight: Calling Out Racial Bias: Images, Words, and Numbers
- Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Bad
- Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good
- For Now: The New Jim Crow
- Chapter Nine: The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Enduring Identities in Dependency Discourse
- How It Works
- Spoiled Identity in welfare Policy Discourse
- The Medicalized Self
- The Persistence of the Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingnes
- Chapter Ten: Three Heads Are Better than One: Collaboration, Mixed Methods, and Disciplining the Poor
- On the Beach in January
- The Experiment
- A Theoretical Dispute
- Three Heads Are Beter than One
- Chapter Eleven: Moving On: Turning To Europe
- Chapter Twelve: Making It Matter: Real Social Science in the Neoliberal Academy
- Ships Passing in the Night
- Conclusion: A Postscript on Writing
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438447766
- 1438447760
- OCLC:
- 869735638
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