The Politics of Survival in Academia Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success

by Jacobs, Lila; Cintrón, José; Canton, Cecil E.; Spindler, George D.; Chun, Maria; Cowan, Eugenia; Delgado-Gaitan, Concha; Loo, Chalsa M.; Kiang, Peter Nien-chu; Spindler, George; Torres, Myriam N.; Zou, Yali

• ISBN13: 9780742523685
• ISBN10: 0742523683
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This volume presents the personal accounts of African American, Asian American, and Latino faculty who describe in their narratives of struggles the challenges they faced in order to become bona fide members of the United States Academy. These narrative

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Redefining the Self: From AFDC to Ph.D.	p. 1
From Slaveship to Scholarship: A Narrative of the Political and Social Transformation of an African American Educator	p. 15
Hanging In: The Journey to Good Enough	p. 33
Disabling Institutions	p. 57
Reflecting on the Games of Academia: A View from "the Proch"	p. 77
Academic Adversity and Faculty Warriors: Prevailing amidst Trauma	p. 95
A Chinese American Woman's Struggle for Success and Self-Discovery in the Academy	p. 125
Transnational Linkages in Asian American Studies as Sources and Strategies for Teaching and Curricular Change	p. 141
References	p. 155
Index	p. 163
About the Contributors	p. 169
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