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Description

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."
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Introduction
Kenneth Wendell Oldfield and Richard Greggory Johnson III

2. Class, Sexuality, and Academia
Andrea R. Lehrermeier

3. Middle-Class Drag
Renny Christopher

4. From the Altar Boy’s Robes to the Professor’s Cap and Gown: The Journey of a Gay, Working-Class Academic
Timothy J. Quain

5. One in Ten: Teaching Tolerance for Class Difference, Ambiguity, and Queerness in the Culture Classroom
Denis M. Provencher

6. Flying the Coop: Liberation through Learning
Nancy Ciucevich Story

7. No More Rented Rooms
Bonnie R. Strickland

8. Escape from the Bronx: The Making of an Unlikely Leader
Richard Greggory Johnson III

9. My First Closet Was the Class Closet
Felice Yeskel

10. One Bad Lecture Away from Guarding a Bank: Identity as a Process
Michallene McDaniel

11. Becoming (Almost) One of Those “Damn, New York, Pinko Intellectuals”
Donald C. Barrett

12. Weaving the Self with Gender: Uniting Race, Sexual Orientation, and Social Class
Terell P. Lasane

13. Possibilities
Angelia R. Wilson

14. Hate Is Not a Family Value
Susan E. Borrego

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

Sujets

• Gay Studies
• Tertiary education

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 17 décembre 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780791477410
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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ESILIENCE Queer Professors from the Working Class

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RESILIENCE

RESILIENCE R E S I I E N C E

Queer Professors from the Working Class

Edited by Kenneth Oldfield and Greggory Johnson III Richard

cover photograph:KOnfrontation by Tina Mutschler

Published by State University of New York Press Albany

© 2008 State University of New York

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.

For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu

Production and book design, Laurie Searl Marketing, Anne M. Valentine

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Resilience : queer professors from the working class / edited by Kenneth Oldfield and Richard Greggory Johnson, III  p. cm.  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 978-0-7914-7637-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)  ISBN 978-0-7914-7638-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Working class—Education (Higher)—United States. 2. Gay college teacher s—United States—Social conditions. I. Oldfield, Kenneth. II. Johnson, Richard Greggory. III. T i t l e : Q u e e r p r o f e s s o r s f r o m t h e w o r k i n g c l a s s .

LC5051.R47 2008 378.1'208664—dc22

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This book is dedicated to the memories of Ms. Elsie Bilderback,

Ms. Madolyn Kimberly, and Ms. Jeanette Johnson.

Their resilience continues to inspire us.

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ONE Introduction Kenneth Oldfield and Richard Greggory Johnson III

TWO Class, Sexuality, and Academia Andrea R. Lehrermeier

THREE Middle-Class Drag Renny Christopher

FOUR From the Altar Boy’s Robes to the Professor’s Cap and Gown: The Journey of a Gay, Working-Class Academic Timothy J. Quain

FIVE One in Ten: Teaching Tolerance for (Class) Difference, Ambiguity, and Queerness in the Culture Classroom Denis M. Provencher

SIX Flying the Coop: Liberation through Learning Nancy Ciucevich Story

SEVEN No More Rented Rooms Bonnie R. Strickland

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EIGHT Escape from the Bronx: The Making of an Unlikely Leader Richard Greggory Johnson III

NINE My First Closet Was the Class Closet Felice Yeskel

TEN One Bad Lecture Away from Guarding a Bank: Identity as a Process Michallene McDaniel

ELEVEN Becoming (Almost) One of Those “Damn, New York, Pinko Intellectuals” Donald C. Barrett

TWELVE Weaving the Self with Gender: Uniting Race, Sexual Orientation, and Social Class Terell P. Lasane

THIRTEEN Possibilities Angelia R. Wilson

FOURTEEN Hate Is Not a Family Value Susan E. Borrego

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

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