Presumed incompetent : the intersections of race and class for women in academia /
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| Imprint: | Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado : Utah State University Press, c2012. |
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| Description: | xiii, 570 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8921193 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I. General Campus Climate
- Introduction
- 1. Facing Down the Spooks
- 2. Waking Up to Privilege: Intersectionality and Opportunity
- 3. A Prostitute, a Servant, and a Customer-Service Representative: A Latina in Academia
- 4. Black/Out: The White Face of Multiculturalism and the Violence of the Canadian Academic Imperial Project
- 5. They Forgot Mammy Had a Brain
- 6. Present and Unequal: A Third-Wave Approach to Voice Parallel Experiences in Managing Oppression and Bias in the Academy
- 7. Navigating the Academic Terrain: The Racial and Gender Politics of Elusive Belonging
- Part II. Faculty/Student Relationships
- Introduction
- 8. Visibly Invisible: The Burden of Race and Gender for Female Students of Color Striving for an Academic Career in the Sciences
- 9. Stepping in and Stepping out: Examining the Way Anticipatory Career Socialization Impacts Identity Negotiation of African American Women in Academia
- 10. Silence of the Lambs
- 11. On Being Special
- 12. Are Student Teaching Evaluations Holding Back Women and Minorities?: The Perils of "Doing" Gender and Race in the Classroom
- 13. Notes toward Racial and Gender Justice Ally Practice in Legal Academia
- 14. Where's the Violence? The Promise and Perils of Teaching Women of Color Studies
- Part III. Networks of Allies
- Introduction
- 15. Working across Racial Lines in a Not-So-Post-Racial World
- 16. Native Women Maintaining Their Culture in the White Academy
- 17. Dis/Jointed Appointments: Solidarity amidst Inequity, Tokenism, and Marginalization
- 18. What's Love Got to Do with It?: Life Teachings from Multiracial Feminism
- 19. Sharing Our Gifts
- Part IV. Social Class in Academia
- Introduction
- 20. Igualadas
- 21. The Port Hueneme of My Mind: The Geography of Working-Class Consciousness in One Academic Career
- 22. On Community in the Midst of Hierarchy (and Hierarchy in the Midst of Community)
- Part V. Tenure and Promotion
- Introduction
- 23. The Making of a Token: A Case Study of Stereotype Threat, Stigma, Racism, and Tokenism in Academe
- 24. Lessons from a Portrait: Keep Calm and Carry On
- 25. "No hay mal que por bien no venga": A Journey to Healing as a Latina, Lesbian Law Professor
- 26. La Lucha: Latinas Surviving Political Science
- 27. Free at Last! No More Performance Anxieties in the Academy 'cause Stepin Fetchit Has Left the Building
- 28. African American Women in the Academy: Quelling the Myth of Presumed Incompetence
- 29. The Experiences of an Academic "Misfit"
- 30. Lessons from the Experiences of Women of Color Working in Academia
- Afterword
- References
- Contributors
- Index
