Transforming the ivory tower : challenging racism, sexism, and homophobia in the academy
Transforming the Ivory Tower builds on the rich legacy of historical struggles to open universities to dissenting voices and oppressed groups. Each chapter is guided by a commitment to praxis the idea that theoretical understandings of inequality must be applied to concrete strategies for change
Print Book, English, ©2012
University of Hawaiʻi Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Honolulu, ©2012
xiii, 216 pages ; 25 cm.
9780824835262, 9780006989080, 0824835263, 000698908X
742519149
The ivory tower paradox : higher education as a site of oppression and resistance / Brett C. Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico
Transforming the place that rewards and oppresses us / Rick Bonus
Telling our stories, naming ourselves : the lost María in the academy / Christina Gómez
Striving to be queer : challenging inequality from positions of privilege / Michael Armato
One activist intellectual's experience in surviving and transforming the academy / Jose Guillermo Zapata Calderon
Activist-scholar alliances for social change : the transformative power of university-community collaborations / David Naguib Pellow
Transformative disjunctures in the academy : Asian American studies as praxis / Linda Trinh Võ
Queering the ivory tower : tales of a troublemaking homosexual / Brett C. Stockdill