Kimberly D. McKee is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States. Denise A. Delgado received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and works as an analyst and trainer.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020
"A valuable book. . . . Degrees of Difference provides
administrators and others in academia an opportunity to consider
ways that altering the campuses where they work can more
authentically attempt to gain and retain women of color graduate
students to change the meaning of diversity work from token
gestures to real social justice activity." --Hypatia "These essays,
rich in nuance, will raise the collective consciousness about
experiences of disenfranchisement overcome through resiliency:
stories so viable and vivid that reading them becomes a spiritual
experience, not just an intellectual one. In fact, anyone who has
experienced disenfranchisement, bias, discrimination, or downright
open hostility while pursuing higher education will find personal
validation here and will also be re-confronted by past challenges
to their humanity." --Resources for Gender and Women's Studies
"This important addition to the literature on the academic
experience will appeal to graduate students, those considering grad
school, and anyone looking to expand their understanding of
academia." --Library Journal "Degrees of Difference contributes to
larger conversations about the systemic violence and injustice
women of color face in higher education and works towards creating
strategies for transformative change within and beyond the Ivory
Tower." --Women's Review of Books "The book incites the disruption
needed to make change happen." --Science Magazine ”Read this book!
Degrees of Difference is a compelling collection of testimonies
accompanied with sharp analyses and just the right amount of real
talk. It offers both vulnerable and empowered reflections on the
experiences of women of color and indigenous women in graduate
school.”-Nitasha Tamar Sharma, author of Beyond Ethnicity: New
Politics of Race in Hawai`i ”The informed editors of this
collection, Degrees of Difference, utilize all their tools and the
most renowned feminist theorists (Ahmed and AnzaldÚa) to
incorporate the book within a body of literature that has
precedents, however precedents that have somewhat left out a group
in academia: graduate students, which this collection remedies.
Graduate students, ABD, professors to be, often work under the
worst conditions, in structures of power that invisibilize them. In
its invaluable introduction Degrees of Difference, the editors
beautifully encapsulate the importance of a varied array of titles
that set a precedent for this innovative feminist, diverse and
inclusive manuscript. The personal and the political are addressed
in this multifaceted collection, which is a blanket of resources
for graduate students and tenure track academics, as well as for
seasoned and tenured committee members, serving on university rank
and tenure committees. Bravas! This is a great addition to a
collection of groundbreaking literature in this area, I applaud the
press. This collection honors all women academics, especially in
times like these.”-Gabriella GutiÉrrez y Muhs, editor of Presumed
Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in
Academia "In a series of sharply realized, personal, lively essays,
the authors work to expose “uncomfortable truths” about how
indigenous women and women of color (IWWOC) academics traverse
universities that are not designed to support them, nor to realize
their success." --Public Books
"An important addition to the body of work on underrepresented
women in academia. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice
"A carefully edited and expertly curated text, Degrees of
Difference is a timely work that takes seriously and urgently the
inequities that have become distressingly commonplace in the
contemporary higher education landscape. What further
contradistinguishes Degrees of Difference from other works is its
keen attention to mentoring and mentorship. The essays and accounts
which comprise this collection offer invaluable insights for those
within the academia and those who are contemplating careers within
it."--Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, author of Modeling Citizenship:
Jewish and Asian American Writing
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