Resilience : queer professors from the working class /

"Academia can be overwhelmingly foreign and hostile to those who have poor or working-class backgrounds. For people who are from the working class and also queer, the obstacles to earning a graduate degree may prove insurmountable. Frequently discouraged from attending college in the first plac...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Oldfield, Kenneth, Johnson, Richard Greggory
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2008.
Sujets:
Working class > Education (Higher) > United States.
Gay college teachers > United States > Social conditions.
Professeurs homosexuels (Enseignement supérieur) > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Working class > Education (Higher)
United States
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Class, sexuality, and academia / Andrea R. Lehrermeier
  • Middle-class drag / Renny Christopher
  • From the altar boy's robes to the professor's cap and gown: the Journey of a gay, working-class academic / Timothy J. Quaint
  • One in ten: teaching tolerance for (class) difference, ambiguity, and queerness in the culture classroom / Denis M. Provencher
  • Flying the coop: liberation through learning / Nancy Ciucevich Story
  • No more rented rooms / Bonnie R. Strickland
  • Escape from the Bronx: the making of an unlikely leader / Richard Greggory Johnson III
  • My first closet was the class closet / Felice Yeskel
  • One bad lecture away from guarding a bank: identity as a process / Michallene McDaniel
  • Becoming (almost) one of those "damn, New York, pinko intellectuals" / Donald C. Barrett
  • Weaving the self with gender: uniting race, sexual orientation, and social class / Terell P. Lasane
  • Possibilities / Angelia R. Wilson
  • Hate is not a family value / Susan E. Borrego.

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