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Not White/Straight/Male/Healthy Enough - Being "Other" in the Academy (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Not White/Straight/Male/Healthy Enough - Being "Other" in the Academy (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Every fall, a new crop of college freshmen arrives on campuses
eager to acquire skills that will prepare them for the workplace,
to join organizations that support causes they care about, and to
establish meaningful relationships with their peers. Less visible
are the new professors who aspire to make a difference in students'
lives, make ground-breaking discoveries, publish scholarship that
influences their fields and forge lifelong collaborations with
colleagues. Most importantly, these students and faculty seek
acceptance beyond admittance and employment. While this desire for
acceptance is universal, there is no guarantee of achieving it. For
some, simply settling in often is not possible. This anthology
discloses the experiences of members of the academic community who
know this fight all too well. By taking a deep dive into the minds
and hearts of students and faculty members who identify as "other"
and by disclosing their awkward, funny and painful experiences,
this book aims to caution newcomers to the academy, to equip
teachers to identify and discuss inequity in the classroom, to call
out perpetrators and perpetuators of injustice, and to provoke
change, if not in the academic community as a whole then in each
individual reader. Recognizing that the case for doing and being
better cannot be made with statistics alone, this book uses
storytelling to bring to light the impact of discrimination on a
very personal level. The writers in this collection put their
stories out there to remind readers that others like them suffer in
silence.
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