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Politics of Survival in Academia: Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success

Politics of Survival in Academia: Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success

Paperback

Series: Immigration and the Transnational Experience

General Education

ISBN10: 0742523691
ISBN13: 9780742523692
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Nov 19 2002
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

This volume presents the personal accounts of African American, Asian American, and Latino faculty who use narratives of struggles to describe the challenges they faced in order to become bona fide members of the U.S. Academy. These narratives show how survival and success require a sophisticated knowledge of the politics of academia, insider knowledge of the requirements of legitimacy in scholarly efforts, and resourceful approach to facing dilemmas between cultural values, traditional racist practices, and academic resilience.

The book also explores the empowerment process of these individuals who have created a new self without rejecting their enduring self, the self strongly connected to their ethno/racial cultures and groups. Within the process of self -redefinition, this new faculty confronted racism, sexism, rejection, the clash of cultural values, and structural indifference to cultural diversity. The faculty recounts how they ultimately learned the skillful accommodation to all of these issues.

It is through the analysis of survival and self-definition that women and faculty of color will establish a powerful foothold in the new academy of the twenty-first century.

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