Transforming the Ivory Tower : Challenging Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in the Academy /

Transforming the Ivory Tower : Challenging Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in the Academy /

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People outside and within colleges and universities often view these institutions as fair and reasonable, far removed from the inequalities that afflict society in general. Despite greater numbers of women, working class people, and people of color-as well as increased visibility for LGBTQ students...

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Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Armato, Michael (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Bonus, Rick, 1962- (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Calderon, Jose Guillermo Zapata (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Danico, Mary Yu (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gomez, Christina (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Pellow, David Naguib (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Stockdill, Brett C., 1966- (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Võ, Linda Trinh, 1964- (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2012]
Series:Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies ; 24
Subjects:
Discrimination in higher education > United States
Homophobia in higher education > United States
Racism in higher education > United States
Sexism in higher education > United States
Discrimination in higher education
Homophobia in higher education
Racism in higher education
Sexism in higher education
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One. The Ivory Tower Paradox: Higher Education as a Site of Oppression and Resistance
  • Chapter Two. Transforming the Place That Rewards and Oppresses Us
  • Chapter Three. Telling Our Stories, Naming Ourselves: The Lost María in the Academy
  • Chapter Four. Striving to Be Queer: Challenging Inequality from Positions of Privilege
  • Chapter Five. One Activist Intellectual's Experience in Surviving and Transforming the Academy
  • Chapter Six. Activist-Scholar Alliances for Social Change: The Transformative Power of University-Community Collaborations
  • Chapter Seven. Transformative Disjunctures in the Academy: Asian American Studies as Praxis
  • Chapter Eight. Queering the Ivory Tower: Tales of a Troublemaking Homosexual
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index

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