Transforming the ivory tower :

Transforming the ivory tower : challenging racism, sexism, and homophobia in the academy / edited by Brett C. Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico. - 1 online resource (234 pages). - Intersections : Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies . - Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii) .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-200) and index.

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.

9780824860394 (e-book)


Discrimination in higher education--United States.
Racism in higher education--United States.
Sexism in higher education--United States.
Homophobia in higher education--United States.


Electronic books.

LC212.42 / .T73 2012eb

378.1/982900973