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Overcoming Adversity in Academia
Stories from Generation X Faculty
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2013
Summary
This collection of essays written by seventeen Generation X academics passionately, provocatively, and eloquently demonstrates the personal issues, conflicts, and triumphs that are definitive of this generation. These essays define the voice of an often overlooked and ignored demographic.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-6139-3
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978-0-7618-6140-9
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
265
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Preface No access
1. Only Human: My Experience in Higher Education No access Pages 1 - 21
2. Confessions of a Bakke Baby: Race, Academia, and the “Joshua Generation” No access Pages 22 - 38
3. Taking Chances: Gay, Male and Feminist in the Academy No access Pages 39 - 52
4. Tenured To Contingent: Life Choices and the Academic Career No access Pages 53 - 65
5. The Evolution of Tolerance: Growing Up as a White Southerner in the Aftermath of Desegregation No access Pages 66 - 82
6. Reflections on Navigating Invisibility and the Consequences of Being Black and Gay in the Academy No access Pages 83 - 98
7. Reflections Upon One Experience Leading To a Career in Academia No access Pages 99 - 108
8. Living Beyond The Dream Deferred: An Auto-Ethnography of My Experiences in the Academy No access Pages 109 - 123
9. In Search of the Abyss: Negotiating Xtra-Academic Potential No access Pages 124 - 138
10. Team Mollick: Our Two-For-One Academic Journey No access Pages 139 - 153
11. My Ongoing Journey: A Black Generation X Professor’s Story No access Pages 154 - 170
12. Leaving the Popular Culture Classroom: Why I’d Rather Keep My Fandom to Myself... No access Pages 171 - 179
13. Doogie Howser, Ph.D. in Identity Crisis No access Pages 180 - 196
14. Changing the State of Tomorrow Today: One Generation Xer’s Journey to End Racism and White Supremacy in the Academy and Beyond No access Pages 197 - 213
15. Hopefully Drifting No access Pages 214 - 224
16. The Aftermath of Admission No access Pages 225 - 234
17. Notes From An In-Betweener No access Pages 235 - 255
