Power, Race, and Gender in Academe: Strangers in the Tower?

by Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin; Herrera-Sobek, Maria; Padilla, Genaro M.

• ISBN13: 9780873522700
• ISBN10: 0873522702
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

Summary

The eleven essays collected in this volume describe individual African American, Chicano and Chicana, Native American, Asian American, gay and lesbian, and white female experiences in academe. Representing a wide variety of fields and career paths in the profession, the authors explore topics such as marginalization, alienation, and persistent discrimination; the obstacles women and minorities face in advancing their careers, as well as strategies for overcoming those obstacles; the backlash against affirmative action; and the implications of gender, sexuality, race, and power in the classroom. While many of the essays give strikingly personal accounts of their authors' struggles, the collection as a whole reveals the complexity of academe's response to the challenge of faculty diversity.

Power, Race, and Gender in Academe is an excellent resource and teaching guide for junior faculty members as they enter the profession. The volume includes thoughtful discussions of hiring and tenure practices, classroom and service evaluations, and other departmental proced

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(7)
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Maria Herrera-Sobek
Reflections on Borderlands and the Color Line	8	(24)
Johnnella E. Butler
Through the Glass Looking	32	(16)
John A. Williams
A Stranger in the Department	48	(10)
C. L. Chua
Feathering Custer	58	(13)
W. S. Penn
On Being Married to the Institution	71	(12)
Robyn Wiegman
Raising Standards While Lowering Anxieties: Rethinking the Promotion and Tenure Process	83	(29)
Annette Kolodny
Minority Hiring in the Age of Downsizing	112	(20)
Carrie Tirado Bramen
Tropicalizing the Liberal Arts College Classroom	132	(22)
Susana Chavez Silverman
At the Limits of My Feminism: Race, Gender, Class and the Execution of a Feminist Pedagogy	154	(17)
Sheila Minn Hwang
Now That they Have Us, What's the Point? The Challenge of Hiring to Create Diversity	171	(12)
Sandra Gunning
``Where's Oz, Toto?'' Idealism and the Politics of Gender and Race in Academe	183	(24)
Ruth Y. HSU
Notes on Contributors	207	(2)
Index	209