Overcoming adversity in academia : stories from Generation X faculty / edited by Elwood Watson.

"This collection of essays written by seventeen Generation X academics passionately, provocatively, and eloquently demonstrates the personal issues, conflicts, and triumphs that are definitive of this generation. These essays define the voice of an often overlooked and ignored demographic."...

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Published: Lanham : University Press of America, [2014]
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505 0 0 |t Preface /  |r Elwood Watson --  |g 1.  |t Only Human: My Experience in Higher Education /  |r Martha Diede --  |g 2.  |t Confessions of a Bakke Baby: Race, Academia, and the "Joshua Generation" /  |r Terrance Tucker --  |g 3.  |t Taking Chances: Gay, Male and Feminist in the Academy /  |r Daniel Farr --  |g 4.  |t Tenured To Contingent: Life Choices and the Academic Career /  |r Annemarie Hamlin --  |g 5.  |t The Evolution of Tolerance: Growing Up as a White Southerner in the Aftermath of Desegregation /  |r Andria J. Woodell --  |g 6.  |t Reflections on Navigating Invisibility and the Consequences of Being Black and Gay in the Academy /  |r Darryl Holloman --  |g 7.  |t Reflections Upon One Experience Leading To a Career in Academia /  |r Douglas Mikutel --  |g 8.  |t Living Beyond The Dream Deferred: An Auto-Ethnography of My Experiences in the Academy /  |r Antonio C. Cuyler --  |g 9.  |t In Search of the Abyss: Negotiating Xtra-Academic Potential /  |r David Prescott-Steed --  |g 10.  |t Team Mollick: Our Two-For-One Academic Journey /  |r Kathleen and George Mollick --  |g 11.  |t My Ongoing Journey: A Black Generation X Professor's Story In Appalachia /  |r Elwood Watson --  |g 12.  |t Leaving the Popular Culture Classroom: Why I'd Rather Keep My Fandom to Myself /  |r Kristi Key --  |g 13.  |t Doogie Howser, Ph. D. in Identity Crisis /  |r Zachary Snider --  |g 14.  |t Changing the State of Tomorrow Today: One Generation Xer's Journey to End Racism and White Supremacy in the Academy and Beyond /  |r Aimee Glocke --  |g 15.  |t Hopefully Drifting /  |r Lance Alexis --  |g 16.  |t The Aftermath of Admission /  |r Jenny R. Sadre-Orafai --  |g 17.  |t Notes From An In-Betweener /  |r Daryl A. Carter. 
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