Achieving Against The Odds

Contents

Contents Foreword ix Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Achieving Against the Odds 1 Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber 1 Coming Out and Leading Out: Pedagogy Beyond 18 the Closet Kathleen M. Sands 2 Three Steps Forward, One Step Back: Dilemmas 36 of Upward Mobility Esther Kingston-Mann 3 Learning to Listen to Students and Oneself 54 Tim Sieber 4 Language and Cultural Capital: Reflections 77 of a “Junior” Professor Reyes Coll-Tellechea 5 Racial Problems in Society and in the Classroom 91 Castellano B. Turner 6 Teaching (as) Composing 103 Vivian Zamel 7 Teaching, Tenure, and Institutional Transformation: 125 Reflections on Race, Culture, and Resilience at an Urban Public University Peter Nien-chu Kiang 8 Teaching American Dreams/American Realities: 141 Students’ Lives and Faculty Agendas Lois Rudnick 9 Teaching, Learning, and Judging: Some Reflections 160 on the University and Political Legitimacy Winston E. Langley 10 Gender Trouble in the Gender Course: Managing 180 and Mismanaging Conflict in the Classroom Estelle Disch 11 Odd Man Out 204 Pancho Savery About the Contributors 215 Index 219 viii Ester Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber ...