Transforming the Academy Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
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Biografisk notat
SARAH WILLIE-LEBRETON is a professor of sociology at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she has coordinated the Black Studies Program, served as associate provost, and chaired the college’s Task Force on Sexual Misconduct. She is also the author of Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race.Transforming the Academy Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
"This inspiring book wonderfully fuses scholarship, personal experiences, and pragmatism, offering penetrating analyses of the challenges and benefits of living and teaching diversity and identifying conditions needed for transformation."<br /> - Caroline Hodges Persell (author of Education and Inequality: The Roots and Results of Stratification in America's Schools) <i>"Transforming the Academy</i> chronicles the meaning behind the sweeping changes in college classroom diversity, the benefits that greater diversity brings to educational institutions, and the unique challenges faced by groups historically shut out from post-secondary education. This book is required reading for ANYONE who works in higher education or is preparing someone to attend college." - Charles Gallagher (author of Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race) "Taken together, these personal narratives provide powerful, often moving, evidence of the continuing struggle for greater inclusivity and diversity on US campuses ... The contributors to this volume, mostly young and female, should be commended for opening their academic lives to help open our eyes to the ongoing need for change." (H-Teach) "A remarkably cohesive whole with themes that transcend individual anecdotes or identity markers. This is a book, as Willie-LeBreton proposes, that has the potential to shed light where it is needed, to bring people together under a common purpose, and to celebrate the work people are already doing to help their campuses fulfill the promise of diversity." (Harvard Educational Review)
Introduction Full Steps Forward, Half Steps Back-The Diversity Challenge of Pedagogy
Sarah Willie-LeBreton
Part I: Challenging Classrooms
Chapter 1 Decentering Whiteness: Teaching Anti-racism on a Predominantly White Campus
Michael D. Smith and Eve Tuck
Chapter 2 Is there a Silver Lining? The Experiences of a Black female Teaching Assistant
Dela Kusi-Appouh
Chapter 3 Radical Leftist or Objective Practitioner? Perceptions of a Black Male Professor
H. Mark Ellis
Chapter 4 Teaching Difference in Multiple Ways: Through Content and Presence
Cheryl Jones-Walker
Chapter 5 What You May Not See: The Oscillating Critique
Pato Hebert
Chapter 6 The Professor, Her Colleague, and Her Student: Two Race-Related Stories
Sarah Willie-LeBreton
Chapter 7 Challenging Oppression in Moderation? Student Feedback in Diversity Courses
Anita Chikkatur
Part II: Witnessing Protest
Chapter 8 The (S)paces of Academic Work: Disability, Access, and Higher Education
Kristin Lindgren
Chapter 9 Queer Affects/Queer Access
Anna Ward
Chapter 10 Geographies of Difference: From Unity to Solidarity
Betty Sasaki
Chapter 11 La Promesa: Working with Latina/o Students in an Elite Liberal Arts College
Aurora Camacho de Schmidt
Chapter 12 Passing Strange: Embodying and Negotiating Difference in Academia
Daphne Lamothe
Chapter 13 A Dean’s Week: “Trap Doors and Glass Ceilings”
Theresa Tensuan
Conclusion Theorizing the Transformation of the 21st Century Campus
Sarah Willie-LeBreton
Bibliography
About the Contributors
End Notes
Index
"This inspiring book wonderfully fuses scholarship, personal experiences, and pragmatism, offering penetrating analyses of the challenges and benefits of living and teaching diversity and identifying conditions needed for transformation."<br /> - Caroline Hodges Persell (author of Education and Inequality: The Roots and Results of Stratification in America's Schools) <i>"Transforming the Academy</i> chronicles the meaning behind the sweeping changes in college classroom diversity, the benefits that greater diversity brings to educational institutions, and the unique challenges faced by groups historically shut out from post-secondary education. This book is required reading for ANYONE who works in higher education or is preparing someone to attend college." - Charles Gallagher (author of Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race) "Taken together, these personal narratives provide powerful, often moving, evidence of the continuing struggle for greater inclusivity and diversity on US campuses ... The contributors to this volume, mostly young and female, should be commended for opening their academic lives to help open our eyes to the ongoing need for change." (H-Teach) "A remarkably cohesive whole with themes that transcend individual anecdotes or identity markers. This is a book, as Willie-LeBreton proposes, that has the potential to shed light where it is needed, to bring people together under a common purpose, and to celebrate the work people are already doing to help their campuses fulfill the promise of diversity." (Harvard Educational Review)
Introduction Full Steps Forward, Half Steps Back-The Diversity Challenge of Pedagogy
Sarah Willie-LeBreton
Part I: Challenging Classrooms
Chapter 1 Decentering Whiteness: Teaching Anti-racism on a Predominantly White Campus
Michael D. Smith and Eve Tuck
Chapter 2 Is there a Silver Lining? The Experiences of a Black female Teaching Assistant
Dela Kusi-Appouh
Chapter 3 Radical Leftist or Objective Practitioner? Perceptions of a Black Male Professor
H. Mark Ellis
Chapter 4 Teaching Difference in Multiple Ways: Through Content and Presence
Cheryl Jones-Walker
Chapter 5 What You May Not See: The Oscillating Critique
Pato Hebert
Chapter 6 The Professor, Her Colleague, and Her Student: Two Race-Related Stories
Sarah Willie-LeBreton
Chapter 7 Challenging Oppression in Moderation? Student Feedback in Diversity Courses
Anita Chikkatur
Part II: Witnessing Protest
Chapter 8 The (S)paces of Academic Work: Disability, Access, and Higher Education
Kristin Lindgren
Chapter 9 Queer Affects/Queer Access
Anna Ward
Chapter 10 Geographies of Difference: From Unity to Solidarity
Betty Sasaki
Chapter 11 La Promesa: Working with Latina/o Students in an Elite Liberal Arts College
Aurora Camacho de Schmidt
Chapter 12 Passing Strange: Embodying and Negotiating Difference in Academia
Daphne Lamothe
Chapter 13 A Dean’s Week: “Trap Doors and Glass Ceilings”
Theresa Tensuan
Conclusion Theorizing the Transformation of the 21st Century Campus
Sarah Willie-LeBreton
Bibliography
About the Contributors
End Notes
Index