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A collaborative endeavour by immigrant women of colour who invite readers to join in the conversation as they dialogue about the immigrant experience in the US and particularly in the ivory tower. Collectively, the narratives in the book strive to further the discourse regarding the multiple interrelationships of identity, culture, self, others, pedagogy, and institutions of higher education. The accounts that follow describe what it means to be a transnational student, professor, scholar, and administrator within the contested terrain of higher education. Favouring an inclusive definition of academe over an elitist one, this book affirms the voices of those women inhabiting different spaces in higher education institutions. The women in this book have experienced the halls of academe in different ways, not always as faculty at a research university. The narratives are organised geographically and draw out the experiences of the third wave of immigrants coming from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean (or West Indies), and Latin America. This book brings together the multidimensional voices of immigrant women of colour to chronicle the immigrant experience in the United States. This book could serve as a text in courses in international education, higher education, intercultural and multicultural education, women's studies, qualitative research studies, and Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies.
| Coming to America : the politics of immigration and our realities as transnational migrants in US higher education | p. 1 |
| Emerging from the shadows : immigrant women of color in the academy | p. 21 |
| Caught between two cultures : coming to terms with being an immigrant scholar in U.S. higher education | p. 37 |
| Crossing borders : reflections on being an African transnational in academe | p. 59 |
| The coping systems of African immigrant women in U.S. higher education | p. 77 |
| Relational worlds : South Asian immigrant women talk about home/work | p. 89 |
| Negotiating my space in academe | p. 105 |
| Dynamic tensions in relationships between women of color in community-based agencies and academia : reflections of two immigrant women in multiple roles | p. 119 |
| Making the invisible visible : West Indian immigrant women and the pursuit of a "good education" across the borderlands | p. 133 |
| Woman/native/other : my experiences as an Anglophone Caribbean student in the United States | p. 159 |
| Repositioning the soul in the heart of the academy : an agenda for self-empowerment for a British Caribbean American woman | p. 181 |
| The immigrant as outsider-within : dismantling structures of inequity | p. 197 |
| Being here : the politics of an (im)migrant self | p. 209 |
| "Immigrant" and colonized in academia : Cuando Soy Y Cuando Me Parezco | p. 231 |
| Transnational nomad in academia : a Puerto Rican perspective | p. 251 |
| Conclusion : "Don't you want me to go a piece of the way with you?" | p. 267 |
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ISBN: 9781594541520
ISBN-10: 1594541523
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 277
Published: 2005
Dimensions (cm): 18.0 x 26.0
Weight (kg): 0.84
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