Becoming a footnote : an activist-scholar finds his voice, learns to write, and survives academia
Record details
- ISBN: 1438447760
- ISBN: 9781438447766
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. How I Had Four Majors in College -- Chapter 2. Going Postal, Getting Drafted: How I Ended Up in Graduate School -- Chapter 3. How I Learned To Read -- Chapter 4. I Went Down to the Crossroads: Activism and Scholarship -- Chapter 5. Standing on Shoulders: Scholarship as Networking -- Chapter 6. Theory and Practice: Research and the Court -- Chapter 7. Is Anybody Listening? Testifying before Congress -- Chapter 8. Calling Out Racial Bias: Images, Words, and Numbers -- Chapter 9. The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Enduring Identities in Dependency Discourse -- Chapter 10. Three Heads Are Better than One: Collaboration, Mixed Methods, and Disciplining the Poor -- Chapter 11. Moving On: Turning To Europe -- Chapter 12. Making It Matter: Real Social Science in the Neoliberal Academy -- Conclusion: A Postscript on Writing -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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