Keywords:
College teaching -- United States
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Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States
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Identity (Psychology)
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Multicultural education -- United States
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Can whites teach African-American literature effectively and legitimately? What is at issue when a man teaches a women's studies course? How effectively can a straight woman educate students about gay and lesbian history? What are the political implications of the study of the colonizers by the colonized? More generally, how does the identity of an educator affect his or her credibility with students and with other educators?. In incident after well-publicized incident, these abstract questions have turned up in America's classrooms and in national media, often trivialized as the latest exampl
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (384 p.)
ISBN:
9780814755310
URL:
http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=865741
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=865741
URL:
https://external.dandelon.com/download/attachments/dandelon/ids/DE011D4AA7865A81A6FB7C12573A7003EB3B0.pdf
DDC:
378.125
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Identity Politics in the College Classroom, or Whose Issue Is This, Anyway?; I Multiculturalist Pedagogies; 2 Redefining America: Literature, Multiculturalism, Pedagogy; 3 Straight Teacher/Queer Classroom: Teaching as an Ally; 4 The Outsider's Gaze; 5 No Middle Ground? Men Teaching Feminism; II The Class Roster; 6 The Discipline of History and the Demands of Identity Politics; 7 Teaching What I'm Not: An Abie-Bodied Woman Teaches Literature by Women with Disabilities
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8 Theory, Practice, and the Battered (Woman) TeacherIII Professorial Identities; 9 Teaching What the Truth Compels You to Teach: A Historian's View; 10 Pro/(Con)fessing Otherness: Trans(cending)national Identities in the English Classroom; 11 Caliban in the Classroom; 12 A Paradox of Silence: Reflections of a Man Who Teaches Women's Studies; IV The Texts and Contexts of Teaching What You're Not; 13 Teaching in the Multiracial Classroom: Reconsidering "Benito Cereno"; 14 "Young Man, Tell Our Stories of How We Made It Over": Beyond the Politics of Identity
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15 Disciplines and Their Discomforts: The Challenges of Study and Service Abroad16 Scratching Heads: The Importance of Sensitivity in an Analysis of "Others"; 17 Who Holds the Mirror? Creating "the Consciousness of the Others"; 18 Daughters of the Dust, the White Woman Viewer, and the Unborn Child; Contributors; Index;
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