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New York : NYU Press, 1996.

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1 Introduction : identity politics in the college classroom, or whose issue is this, anyway? / Katherine J. Mayberry; I Multiculturalist pedagogies; 2 Redefining America : literature, multiculturalism, pedagogy / Nancy J. Peterson; 3 Straight teacher/queer classroom : teaching as an ally / Barbara Scott Winkler; 4 The outsider's gaze / Janet M. Powers; 5 No middle ground? Men teaching feminism / J. Scott Johnson, Jennifer Kellen, Greg Siebert, and Celia Shaughnessy; II The class roster; 6 The discipline of history and the demands of identity politics / Christine Farnham; 7 Teaching what I'm not : an abie-bodied woman teaches literature by women with disabilities / Barbara Dibernard ; 8 Theory, practice, and the battered (woman) teacher / Celeste M. Condit; III Professorial identities; 9 Teaching what the truth compels you to teach : a historian's view / Jacqueline Jones; 10 Pro/(con)fessing otherness : trans(cending)national identities in the English classroom / Lavina Dhingra Shankar; 11 Caliban in the classroom / Indira Karamcheti; 12 A paradox of silence : reflections of a man who teaches women's studies / Craig W. Heller; IV The texts and contexts of teaching what you're not; 13 Teaching in the multiracial classroom : reconsidering "Benito Cereno" / Robert S. Levine; 14 "Young man, tell our stories of how we made it over" : beyond the politics of identity / Gary L. Lemons; 15 Disciplines and their discomforts : the challenges of study and service abroad / Gerard Aching ; 16 Scratching heads : the importance of sensitivity in an analysis of "others" / Donna J. Watson; 17 Who holds the mirror? Creating "the consciousness of the others" / Mary Elizabeth Lanser; 18 Daughters of the dust, the white woman viewer, and the unborn child / Reneě R. Curry.

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.

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Temat

Identity (Psychology)

Multicultural education -- United States.

Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.

College teaching -- United States.

Education.

College teaching.

Education, Higher -- Political aspects.

Identity (Psychology)

Multicultural education.

United States.

Powiązania

Print version: Mayberry, Katherine. Teaching What You're Not : Identity Politics in Higher Education. New York : NYU Press, ©1996 9780814755310

ISBN

9780814763179 (electronic bk.)

0814763170 (electronic bk.)