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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Overcoming adversity in academia
    sub title: stories from Generation X faculty
  name:
    name part: Watson, Elwood.
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vi, 265 pages)
  abstract: This collection of essays written by seventeen Generation X academics passionately, provocatively, and eloquently demonstrates the personal issues, conflicts, and triumphs that are definitive of this generation. These essays define the voice of an often overlooked and ignored demographic.
  table of contents: 1. Only Human: My Experience in Higher Education; 2. Confessions of a Bakke Baby: Race, Academia, and the "Joshua Generation"; 3. Taking Chances: Gay, Male and Feminist in the Academy; 4. Tenured To Contingent: Life Choices and the Academic Career; 5. The Evolution of Tolerance: Growing Up as a White Southerner in the Aftermath of Desegregation; 6. Reflections on Navigating Invisibility and the Consequences of Being Black and Gay in the Academy; 7. Reflections Upon One Experience Leading To a Career in Academia
  table of contents: 8. Living Beyond The Dream Deferred: An Auto-Ethnography of My Experiences in the Academy; 9. In Search of the Abyss: Negotiating Xtra-Academic Potential; 10. Team Mollick: Our Two-For-One Academic Journey; 11. My Ongoing Journey: A Black Generation X Professor's Story; 12. Leaving the Popular Culture Classroom: Why I'd Rather Keep My Fandom to Myself...; 13. Doogie Howser, Ph.D. in Identity Crisis; 14. Changing the State of Tomorrow Today: One Generation Xer's Journey to End Racism and White Supremacy in the Academy and Beyond; 15. Hopefully Drifting; 16. The Aftermath of Admission
  table of contents: 17. Notes From An In-Betweener; Contributors; Index
  note: edited by Elwood Watson.
  note: Description based upon print version of record.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: College teachers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    topic: Generation X
    topic: Education (Higher)
    geographic: United States
  classification: LB2806.22 .O384 2013
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Overcoming Adversity in Academia : Stories from Generation X Faculty
    name:
      name part: Watson, Elwood
    origin info:
      publisher: Lanham : University Press of America,c2013
  identifier: 9780761861409
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 131214
    record change date: 20250816210458.2
    record identifier: in00003468768
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng