Cross-cultural women scholars in Academe intergenerational voices
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2014
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| Ausgabe: | First published |
| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge research in gender and society
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Quiet Transformation: Using Mindfulness to Transform Oneself in the Academy; 2 Practicing What I Teach: The Narrative Experiences of an Early-Career African American Female Academician's Dual Role as Scholar and Mentor; 3 Latinas Transcending Barriers in Academia: From Educational Leaders to Mentoring Scholars; 4 Living on the Margin as an Outsider-Within in the Academy: An Auto-Ethnography Study of a Caribbean Immigrant Scholar
- 5 Shifting, Lifting and Climbing: A Black Feminist Leadership Perspective on Navigating Academe in Australasia6 Identity and Conformity: Transcending Barriers of Race, Gender, and Space to Promote Scholar Activism in Educational Leadership for American Indians; 7 Cultivating Authenticity in the Academy: Becoming a Latina Scholar; 8 Scholarship that Advocates for Social Justice: Empowering Community Leadership; Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here?; Contributors; Index
- This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian American, Black/African American and Hispanic descent at various levels of academe, actively engaged in the advancement of marginalized groups in the U.S. and abroad through their scholarly work. Intergenerational cross-cultural scholars manifest a literary community that models ways in which women scholars can move beyond traditional institutional, psychological, and professional barriers to practice activism, break unwritten rules, and shatter status