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

Transforming the Ivory Tower builds on the rich legacy of historical struggles to open universities to dissenting voices and oppressed groups. Each chapter is guided by a commitment to praxis the idea that theoretical understandings of inequality must be applied to concrete strategies for change.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stockdill, Brett C., 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sexism in higher education.
Racism in higher education.
Homophobia in higher education.
Discrimination in higher education.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Homophobie dans l'enseignement superieur > États-Unis.
Sexisme dans l'enseignement superieur > États-Unis.
Racisme dans l'enseignement superieur > États-Unis.
Discrimination dans l'enseignement superieur > États-Unis.
Homophobia in higher education > United States.
Sexism in higher education > United States.
Racism in higher education > United States.
Discrimination in higher education > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The ivory tower paradox : higher education as a site of oppression and resistance / Brett C. Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico
  • Transforming the place that rewards and oppresses us / Rick Bonus
  • Telling our stories, naming ourselves : the lost María in the academy / Christina Gómez
  • Striving to be queer : challenging inequality from positions of privilege / Michael Armato
  • One activist intellectual's experience in surviving and transforming the academy / Jose Guillermo Zapata Calderon
  • Activist-scholar alliances for social change : the transformative power of university-community collaborations / David Naguib Pellow
  • Transformative disjunctures in the academy : Asian American studies as praxis / Linda Trinh Võ
  • Queering the ivory tower : tales of a troublemaking homosexual / Brett C. Stockdill.

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