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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power in Early Careers overcame deeply unequal educational systems to become the first in their families to finish college. Now, they are among the 3% of first-generation undergraduate students to go on to graduate school and then become faculty, in spite of structural barriers that worked against them. These scholars write of socialization to the professoriate through the complex lens of intersectional identities of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability and social class. These first-generation graduate students have crafted critical narratives of the structural obstacles within higher education that stand in the way of brilliant scholars who are poor and working-class, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, immigrant, queer, white, women, or people with disabilities. They write of agency in creating defiant networks of support, of sustaining connections to family and communities, of their activism and advocacy on campus. They refuse to perpetuate the myths of meritocracy that reproduce the inequalities of higher education. In response to a research literature and to campus programming that frames their identities around “need”, they write instead of agentive and politicized intersectional identities as first-generation graduate students, committed to institutional change through their research, teaching, and service. Contributors are: Veronica R. Barrios, Candis Bond, Beth Buyserie, Noralis Rodríguez Coss, Charise Paulette DeBerry, Janette Diaz, Alfred P. Flores, José García, Cynthia George, Shonda Goward, Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Nataria T. Joseph, Castagna Lacet, Jennifer M. Longley, Catherine Ma, Esther Díaz Martín, Nadia Yolanda Alverez Mexia, T. Mark Montoya, Miranda Mosier, Michelle Parrinello-Cason, J. Michael Ryan, Adrián Arroyo Pérez, Will Porter, Jaye Sablan, Theresa Stewart-Ambo, Keisha Thompson, Ethan Trinh, Jane A. Van Galen and Wendy Champagnie Williams.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power in Early Academic Careers Jane A. Van Galen and Jaye Sablan 1 “Si pega, Bueno”: Testimonio of a First Generation Latinx Dual-Career Academic Couple Navigating Family and Profession Esther Díaz Martín and José García 2 Writing as An Art of Rebellion: Scholars of Color Using Literacy to Find Spaces of Identity and Belonging in Academia Ethan Trinh and Luis Javier Pentón Herrera 3 Telling Stories: Writing Ourselves into Academia Miranda Mosier 4 Pathways, Pedagogy, and Pacific Islander Studies Alfred P. Flores 5 Navigating Institutional Borderlands: An Inside Perspective from the Outside T. Mark Montoya 6 Dear Native Students, with Love Theresa Stewart-Ambo 7 Backbone Snacks Charise P. DeBerry 8 The First Veronica R. Barrios 9 Sister, Sister, Never Knew How Much I Missed Ya! Catherine Ma and Keisha V. Thompson 10 “I Have Measured out My Life with Coffee Spoons”: On Time and Motherhood as a First-Generation PhD Candis Bond 11 Yes, We Count: Weaving Fluid Identities of Disability and Sexuality into First-Gen Pedagogies Beth Buyserie 12 From the Hood to Higher Ed: An Autoethnography of Race, Class, and Gender Castagna Lacet and Wendy Champagnie Williams 13 Multiply Conscious and in Need of Divine Intervention Nataria T. Joseph 14 The Long and the Short of It: Realities and Expectations of Landing and Losing a Dream Job Michelle Parrinello-Cason 15 Surviving the Matrix: The Struggles of a Small Town Gay Kid to Become a Globe-Trotting Professional Academic J. Michael Ryan 16 (In)visible (Dis)advantages: Being “One of the Boys” in Classical Music Performance Will Porter 17 Re-Framing the Enemy within in Academia Noralis Rodríguez Coss 18 Navigating Distances: From Sob Story to Educational Privilege Janette Diaz 19 Finding My Voice Jennifer M. Longley 20 Climbing Uphill Nadia Yolanda Alvarez Mexia and Adrián Arroyo Pérez 21 First-Gens and Student Debt: Paying More While Getting Less Cynthia George 22 Resilience and Grit Are for Rich People: How “Making It” through Higher Education Has Made Me Sick Shonda L. Goward Index
