First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.
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Academia can be overwhelmingly foreign and hostile to those who have poor or working-class backgrounds. For people who are from the working class and also queer, the obstacles to earning a graduate degree may prove insurmountable. Frequently discouraged from attending college in the first place, these students often struggle to pay for their education while they simultaneously battle prejudice and discrimination because of their sexual orientation and blue-collar backgrounds. Resilience offers inspiring personal stories of those who made it: thirteen professors and administrators provide their moving accounts of struggle, marginalization, and triumph in the accomplishments that their parents, guidance counselors, and sometimes even they themselves would have thought out of reach. These scholars write in a manner that will enable readers to reconsider their own assumptions and to empathize with the oppression that accompanies being defined as "other."
Contributors include Donald C. Barrett, Susan E. Borrego, Renny Christopher, Richard Greggory Johnson III, Terell P. Lasane, Andrea R. Lehrermeier, Michallene McDaniel, Kenneth Oldfield, Dennis M. Provencher, Timothy J. Quain, Nancy Ciucevich Story, Bonnie R. Strickland, Angelia R. Wilson, and Felice Yeskel.
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Kenneth Oldfield is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Richard Greggory Johnson III is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Vermont.
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African American, New York, San Francisco, United States, Ivy League, Alpha Phi Alpha, Class Action, Stonewall Center, Accessed August, Santa Cruz, Dean of Women, Uncle John, Los Angeles, World War, Hunter College Elementary School, South Carolina, Dean of Students, California State University, The Racquet, Different World, Aunt Katherine, University of Vermont, Night of Compassion, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Accessed June Browse Sample Pages:
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African American, New York, San Francisco, United States, Ivy League, Alpha Phi Alpha, Class Action, Stonewall Center, Accessed August, Santa Cruz, Dean of Women, Uncle John, Los Angeles, World War, Hunter College Elementary School, South Carolina, Dean of Students, California State University, The Racquet, Different World, Aunt Katherine, University of Vermont, Night of Compassion, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Accessed June Browse Sample Pages:
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