The Politics of Survival in Academia: Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success (Immigration and the Transnational Experience Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742523691 ISBN 13: 9780742523692

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Lila Jacobs is a professor at California State University, Sacramento and the coordinator of the Urban Leadership Program. JosZ Cintr-n is professor of education at California State University, Sacramento. He is co-director of the Migrant/Optimal Learning Environment (OLE) Project. Cecil E. Canton teaches criminal justice at California State University, Sacramento.

Review:

The stories told in this book serve as a reminder that subtle forms of discrimination, which cannot be fully captured by quantified research, are powerful and deserve attention. (Educational Researcher)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0742523691
• ISBN 13: 9780742523692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Jacobs Lila, Cintrón José, Canton Cecil E.