TY - BOOK AU - Kingston-Mann,Esther AU - Sieber,R.Timothy TI - Achieving against the odds: how academics become teachers of diverse students T2 - The new academy SN - 1566398517 AV - LC3727. A34 2001 U1 - 378.19829 PY - 2001/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Temple University Press KW - University of Massachusetts at Boston KW - Minority college students KW - Massachusetts KW - Boston KW - Case studies KW - Multicultural education KW - College environment KW - Cultural pluralism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword; Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich --; Introduction: Achieving Against the Odds; Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber --; 1; Coming Out and Leading Out: Pedagogy Beyond the Closet; Kathleen M. Sands --; 2; Three Steps Forward, One Step Back: Dilemmas of Upward Mobility; Esther Kingston-Mann --; 3; Learning to Listen to Students and Oneself; Tim Sieber --; 4; Language and Cultural Capital: Reflections of a "Junior" Professor; Reyes Coll-Tellechea --; 5; Racial Problems in Society and the Classroom; Castellano B. Turner --; 6; Teaching (as) Composing; Vivian Zamel --; 7; Teaching, Tenure, and Institutional Transformation: Reflections on Race, Culture, and Resilience at an Urban Public University; Peter Nien-chu Kiang --; 8; Teaching American Dreams/American Realities: Students' Lives and Faculty Agendas; Lois Rudnick --; 9; Teaching, Learning, and Judging: Some Reflections on the University and Political Legitimacy; Winston E. Langley --; 10; Gender Trouble in the Gender Course: Managing and Mismanaging Conflict in the Classroom; Estelle Disch --; 11; Odd Man Out; Pancho Savery ER -