Still searching for our mothers' gardens : experiences of new, tenure-track women of color at "majority" institutions /
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2011. |
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| Description: | xxi, 287 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8512177 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Managing Tensions and Contradictions: Diversity in Question
- 1. Disclose and Demystify: The Discrepancy Between the Concept of Diversity and the Action of Diversity in the Face of "Stubborn Faculty, Wary Students, and Unsupportive Administrators"
- 2. A Muted Voice on Holy Ground: Reflections on the Dialectics Experienced as an African American Female Professor in a Christian University
- 3. Watching My B/lack: The Not So Colorblind World of Academia
- Confronting Prejudice and Discrimination: Strategies of Survival
- 4. A Different Kind of Professor
- 5. Standpoint Theory and Discontinuing Denial of Racism, Sexism, and Ageism
- 6. Negotiating Resistance: Challenges of a Female Faculty Member of Color from an Islamic Arab Background
- 7. Playing the Game: Communicative Practices for Negotiating Politics and Preparing for Tenure
- Responding to 'Otherness': Navigating Identity
- 8. Barriers to Being Heard in a Majority Institution
- 9. Women of Colour in the Academy: The South Asian 'Corner'
- 10. Strangers in the Ivory Tower: Framing International Female Faculty Identity Negotiations in a 'Majority' Academic Institution
- 11. My Brown Body as Strange and Suspect: Painful Moments and Powerful Realizations
- Experiencing Difference in the Classroom: Teaching 'Majority' Students
- 12. Living Creativity: Teaching as Art
- 13. "One of These Things is Not Like the Others": Experiences of African-American Women Professors with Majority-Race Students
- Working with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
- 14. Navigating New Terrains: Socialization Challenges of African-American Female Tenure-Track Faculty in the STEM Disciplines
- 15. Multiplying the Others From the Margins: Experiences of a Black, Female, Junior Faculty Member Teaching in a Non-STEM Discipline at a STEM Institution
- Concluding Thoughts
- Index
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
