Resilience: Queer Professors from the Working Class

Oldfield, Kenneth (Editor)/ Johnson, Richard Gregory, III (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0791476383 / ISBN 13: 9780791476383

Published by State University of New York Press, 2008

About this Item

272 pages. 8.80x6.00x0.80 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Resilience: Queer Professors from the Working Class
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791476383
• ISBN 13: 9780791476383
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.36 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.

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. These scholars write in a manner that will enable readers to reconsider their own assumptions and to empathize with the oppression that accompanies being defined as "other."

About the Author

Kenneth Oldfield is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Richard Greggory Johnson III is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Vermont.