Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics

Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance
Herausgeber: Whitaker, Manya; Joy Denise, Eric

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book documents the lived experiences of women of color academics who have leveraged their professional positions to challenge the status quo in their scholarship, teaching, service, activism, and leadership.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781138610903
• ISBN-10: 1138610909
• Artikelnr.: 53482788

Autorenporträt

Manya C. Whitaker is an assistant professor of Education at Colorado College, USA. Eric Anthony Grollman is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Richmond, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
By Bianca Williams
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
By Manya C. Whitaker and Eric Anthony Grollman
PART I: Resisting Convention: Counternarratives to Conventional Norms and
Practices in the Academy
Chapter 2: Leading as a Chicana Feminist in a Predominantly White
Institution
By Yolanda Flores Niemann
Chapter 3: What Looks Like Bravery in the Academy: Reflections of an
African-American Woman Engineer
By Gilda Barabino
Chapter 4: Being Brave in the Ivory Towers as "Zape-tah-hol-ah" (Sticks
with Bow)
By Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Starr Minthorn
Chapter 5: "Working the Cracks" in Academia and Beyond: Cultivating "Race"
and Social Justice Convergence Spaces, Networks and Liberation Capital for
Social Transformation in the Neoliberal University
By Nancy López
Chapter 6: Resisting Sexual Harassment in Academia
By Tayler J. Mathews
Chapter 7: Un-Disciplined: A Conversation Between Two Sisters Who Left
Graduate School
By Aph Ko and Syl Ko
Chapter 8: "You're Doing What?!?": Leaving Academia to Answer the Call
By Roxanna Harlow
PART II. Collective Resistance: Counternarratives to the Ethos of
Individualistic Meritocracy in the Academy
Chapter 9: Love Note
By Robbin Chapman
Chapter 10: La Colectiva: Peer Mentoring on the Path to Thrival
By Mariela Nuñez-Janes, Amelia M. Kraehe, Alicia Re Cruz, Valerie
Martinez-Ebers, Bertina H. Combes, and Andrea Silva
Chapter 11: Fiery Mind, Full Heart, Brave Soul: A Model for Women of Color
to Thrive in Historically White Colleges and Universities
By Robbin Chapman
Chapter 12: Courageous Xicanas: Living Legacies of Comadrazgo in the
Academy
By Kandace Creel Falcón
Chapter 13: "We Got You": What Raising Up the Next Generation of
Scholar-Activists Has Taught Me
By Janelle M. Silva
Chapter 14: On the Wings of Communal Bravery
By Nelli Sargsyan
PART III. Embodied Resistance: Counternarratives to Hegemonic Identities in
the Academy
Chapter 15: a letter for Auntie Lorde
By Aja Lenae Johnson
Chapter 16: On Being Powerfully Vulnerable and Why I Love My Black Woman's
Tears
By Kelsey Jones
Chapter 17: Vulnerability: The New Brave
By Natanya Ann Pulley
Chapter 18: Undocumented in the Ivory Tower
By Alessandra Bazo Vienrich
Chapter 19: A Latinx Testimonio of Motherhood in Academia
By Patricia Herrera
Chapter 20: On Desiderata
By Alta Mauro
Afterword
By Archana A. Pathak
List of Contributors