Resilience : queer professors from the working class /

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Imprint:Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 254 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11198960
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Varying Form of Title:Queer professors from the working class
Other authors / contributors:Oldfield, Kenneth.
Johnson, Richard Greggory.
ISBN:9781441621146
1441621148
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"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 place, these students often struggle to pay for their education while they simultaneously battle prejudice and discrimination because of their sexual orientation and blue-collar backgrounds. Resilience offers inspiring personal stories of those who made it: thirteen professors and administrators provide their moving accounts of struggle, marginalization, and triumph in the accomplishments that their parents, guidance counselors, and sometimes even they themselves would have thought out of reach." --Book Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Resilience. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2008 9780791476376 0791476375