{"product_id":"lean-semesters-9781421438764","title":"Lean Semesters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddressing in depth the reality that women of color, particularly Black women, face compounded exploitation and economic inequality within the neoliberal university.   More Black women are graduating with advanced degrees than ever before. Despite the fact that their educational and professional opportunities should be expanding, highly educated Black women face strained and worsening economic, material, and labor conditions in graduate school and along their academic career trajectory. Black women are less likely to be funded as graduate students, are disproportionately hired as contingent faculty, are trained and hired within undervalued disciplines, and incur the highest levels of educational debt. In Lean Semesters, Sekile M. Nzinga argues that the corporatized universitylong celebrated as a purveyor of progress and opportunityactually systematically indebts and disposes of Black women's bodies, their intellectual contributions, and their potential en masse. Insisting that shifts i\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. The University as Hyper-Producer of Inequity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Mortgaging Our Brains: Black Women, Privatization, and Subprime PhDs\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Ain't I Precarious? Black Academic Women as Contingent\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Families Devalued: Black Academic Women and the Neoliberal Era's Family Tariff\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Jumping Mountains: Resisting the Marketized University\u003cbr\u003eConclusion. Statement of Solidarity\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A. Our Truths Interview Guide\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B. Resources and Organizations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408139395415,"sku":"9781421438764","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421438764.jpg?v=1730501729","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lean-semesters-9781421438764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}