Full Description
Many Black, Latinx, multiracial and ethnically diverse, first-generation college students turned PhDs—tie their academic success, achievements, and ability to navigate the difficult terrain of higher education back to the critical experiences and lessons learned in their home lives and through their cultural backgrounds. For them, culture matters. This book offers an opportunity for an anti-deficit and positive examination of (Black, Latinx, and multiracial) culture and its role in creating educational efficacy among academics of color. Through personal narrative, educational and learning theory, creative writing/poetry, this hybrid text examines the cultural path to the doctorate.
Transformative practice should be guided by an understanding of how an appreciation of a faculty member's cultural, life, and social experiences can be used to establish a healthy environment that will better appreciate, engage, and retain faculty of color. Along these lines, this text also considers how cultural, life and social experiences translate into pedagogy, mentorship and value as faculty of color.
Contents
Prologue: Coming Back to the Park: Community Cultural Wealth as a Source of Strength, Knowledge, and Sustenance, Toni M. Williams
Introduction: The Cultural Road to the Doctorate, Drs. Toby S. Jenkins, Stephanie Troutman, and Crystal Polite Glover
Preface: Untitled Poem, Crystal L. Endsley
Section I. Redefining Wealth: Family, Community, and Education Beyond School
Chapter 1: Dirt Roads & Shotgun Houses: Where does genius call home? Toby S. Jenkins
Personal Narratives
Section II. Intersecting Identities: Personal Geography/ies, Social Class, and Race
Chapter 2: Incidents in the Life of a Black/Bi-Racial Jersey Girl, Stephanie Troutman
Personal Narratives
Section III: Navigating Tough Terrain: Cultural Resistance, Schooling Culture, and Liberatory Education
Chapter 3: The Only One: A Black Girl's Experiences in Gifted and Talented Education, Crystal P. Glover
Personal Narratives
Chapter 4: Conclusion: Contesting Privilege, Toby S. Jenkins, Stephanie Troutman, and Crystal Polite-Glover
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