Amplified voices, intersecting identities. Volume 1 : first-gen phds navigating institutional power / edited by Jane A. Van Galen, Jaye Sablan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Galen, Jane A., editor.

Sablan, Jaye, editor.

Series:

Mobility Studies and Education ; 6.

Mobility Studies and Education ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority graduate students--United States.

Minority graduate students.

Discrimination in higher education--United States.

Discrimination in higher education.

First-generation graduate students--United States.

First-generation graduate students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : BRILL, [2021]

Summary:

The contributors to Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power overcame deeply unequal educational systems to become the first in their families to finish college. Now, they are among the 3% of first-generation undergraduate students to go on to graduate school, in spite of structural barriers that worked against them. These scholars write of socialization to the professoriate through the complex lens of intersectional identities of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social class. These first-generation graduate students have crafted critical narratives of the structural obstacles within higher education that stand in the way of brilliant scholars who are poor and working-class, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, immigrant, queer, white, and women. They write of agency in creating defiant networks of support, of sustaining connections to family and communities, of their activism and advocacy on campus. They refuse to perpetuate the myths of meritocracy that reproduce the inequalities of higher education. In response to research literature and to campus programming that frames their identities around "need", they write instead of agentive and politicized intersectional identities as first-generation graduate students, committed to institutional change through their research, teaching, and service. .

Contents:

Copyright page

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities / Jaye Sablan and Jane A. Van Galen

Chapter 1 Memories and Migration in Misanthropic Times / Josué López

Chapter 2 Scenes from the Life of a Burgeoning Mother-Scholar / Becky Morgan

Chapter 3 A Doctoral Odyssey / Travis C. Smith

Chapter 4 Confessions of a Single Mother in Academia / Araceli Calderón

Chapter 5 "I Wish Someone Had Told Me It Was Going to Be Like This" / Marisa V. Cervantes

Chapter 6 Black and in Grad School / LaToya W. Brown

Chapter 7 Locating Struggles with Sociology and Surviving with Mindfulness / Matt Reid

Chapter 8 From the Mekong and Delaware River to the Merrimack River / Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy and Francine Rudd Coston

Chapter 9 Enduring / Takeshia Pierre

Chapter 10 Smile Now, Cry Later / Gloria Negrete-Lopez , Lisa S. Palacios , and Alejandra I. Ramírez

Chapter 11 A One-Sided Conversation with Academia / Joy Cobb

Chapter 12 Just What Is a First-Generation Chinese Male Immigrant and College Student Doing in a Nice Field Like Teacher Education? / Lin Wu

Chapter 13 Strangers Can Make No Noise / Altheria Caldera

Chapter 14 A Black Girl's Magic Is Often Her Blues / Angela Gay

Chapter 15 A Particularly Ferocious Fire within Me / Ebony N. Russ

Chapter 16 This Is Soul Work / Jason K. Wallace , Raven K. Cokley , and Lamesha C. Brown

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-44517-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004445178 DOI