Teaching What You're Not : : Identity Politics in Higher Education / / Katherine Mayberry.

• HerausgeberIn: Mayberry, Katherine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Examines the roles of historical, cultural, and personal identities in the classroomCan whites teach African-American literature effectively and legitimately? What is at issue when a man teaches a women's studies course? How effectively can a straight woman educate students about gay and lesbia...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: Identity Politics in the College Classroom, or Whose Issue Is This, Anyway?
• 2. Redefining America: Literature, Multiculturalism, Pedagogy
• 3. Straight Teacher/Queer Classroom: Teaching as an Ally
• 4. The Outsider's Gaze
• 5. No Middle Ground? Men Teaching Feminism
• 6. The Discipline of History and the Demands of Identity Politics
• 7. Teaching What I'm Not: An Able-Bodied Woman Teaches Literature by Women with Disabilities
• 8. Theory, Practice, and the Battered (Woman) Teacher
• 9. Teaching What the Truth Compels You to Teach: A Historian's View
• 10. Pro/(Con)fessing Otherness: Trans(cending)national Identities in the English Classroom
• 11. Caliban in the Classroom
• 12. A Paradox of Silence: Reflections of a Man Who Teaches Women's Studies
• 13. Teaching in the Multiracial Classroom: Reconsidering "Benito Cerenon
• 14. "Young Man, Tell Our Stories of How We Made It Over": Beyond the Politics of Identity
• 15. Disciplines and Their Discomforts: The Challenges of Study and Service Abroad
• 16. Scratching Heads: The Importance of Sensitivity in an Analysis of "Others"
• 17. Who Holds the Mirror? Creating "the Consciousness of the Others"
• 18. Daughters of the Dust, the White Woman Viewer, and the Unborn Child
• Contributors
• Index