Transforming the Academy : : Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy /

Transforming the Academy : : Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy / / Sarah Willie-LeBreton.

In recent decades, American universities have begun to tout the "diversity" of their faculty and student bodies. But what kinds of diversity are being championed in their admissions and hiring practices, and what kinds are being neglected? Is diversity enough to solve the structural inequa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Camacho de Schmidt, Aurora,
Chikkatur, Anita,
Ellis, H. Mark,
Hebert, Pato,
Jones-Walker, Cheryl,
Kusi-Appouh, Dela,
Lamothe, Daphne,
Lindgren, Kristin,
Sasaki, Betty G.,
Smith, Michael D.,
Tensuan, Theresa,
Tuck, Eve,
Ward, Anna,
Willie-LeBreton, Sarah,
TeilnehmendeR:
Chikkatur, Anita
Ellis, H. Mark
Hebert, Patrick "Pato"
Jones-Walker, Cheryl
Kusi-Appouh, Dela
Lamothe, Daphne
Lindgren, Kristin
Sasaki, Betty
Schmidt, Aurora Camacho de
Smith, Michael D.
Tensuan, Theresa
Tuck, Eve
Ward, Anna
Willie-LeBreton, Sarah
HerausgeberIn:
Willie-LeBreton, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Challenges of Diversity and Pedagogy
  • PART I. CHALLENGING CLASSROOMS
  • 1. Decentering Whiteness: Teaching Antiracism on a Predominantly White Campus
  • 2. Is There a Silver Lining? The Experiences of a Black Female Teaching Assistant
  • 3. Radical Leftist or Objective Practitioner? Perceptions of a Black Male Professor
  • 4. Teaching Difference in Multiple Ways: Through Content and Presence
  • 5. What You May Not See: The Oscillating Critique
  • 6. The Professor, Her Colleague, and Her Student: Two Race-Related Stories
  • 7. Challenging Oppression in Moderation? Student Feedback in Diversity Courses
  • PART II. WITNESSING PROTEST
  • 8. The (S)Paces of Academic Work: Disability, Access, and Higher Education
  • 9. Queer Affects/Queer Access
  • 10. Geographies of Difference: From Unity to Solidarity
  • 11. La Promesa: Working with Latina and Latino Students in an Elite Liberal Arts College
  • 12. Passing Strange: Embodying and Negotiating Difference in Academia
  • 13. A Dean's Week: "Trapdoors and Glass Ceilings"
  • Conclusion: Theorizing the Transformation of the Twenty-First- Century Campus
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index

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