ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. Introduction Kenneth Wendell Oldfield and Richard Greggory Johnson III 2. Class, Sexuality, and Academia Andrea R. Lehrermeier 3. Middle-Class Drag Renny Christopher 4. From the Altar Boy’s Robes to the Professor’s Cap and Gown: The Journey of a Gay, Working-Class Academic Timothy J. Quain 5. One in Ten: Teaching Tolerance for Class Difference, Ambiguity, and Queerness in the Culture Classroom Denis M. Provencher 6. Flying the Coop: Liberation through Learning Nancy Ciucevich Story 7. No More Rented Rooms Bonnie R. Strickland 8. Escape from the Bronx: The Making of an Unlikely Leader Richard Greggory Johnson III 9. My First Closet Was the Class Closet Felice Yeskel 10. One Bad Lecture Away from Guarding a Bank: Identity as a Process Michallene McDaniel 11. Becoming (Almost) One of Those “Damn, New York, Pinko Intellectuals” Donald C. Barrett 12. Weaving the Self with Gender: Uniting Race, Sexual Orientation, and Social Class Terell P. Lasane 13. Possibilities Angelia R. Wilson 14. Hate Is Not a Family Value Susan E. Borrego LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

"By addressing two outsider statuses, queer and working class, within higher education, Resilience makes a contribution to a number of academic areas, such as higher education, queer studies, and class studies, and a variety of audiences, including policy-makers, administrators, faculty, counselors, and students." — H-Net Reviews"The 13 personal and professional stories of young people journeying towards professorship were all different, riveting, and well edited. Oldfield and Johnson have done the field of current and prospective faculty, as well as scholars and researchers in the field[s] of higher education, gender studies, and sexuality study, great service by selecting compelling life accounts to illuminate varied aspects of this profound, hitherto invisible, and silenced journey." — New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development"This book began, like many good ideas, as a conversation … the result is a collection of thirteen moving, beautifully written autobiographical essays, each charting a unique, usually roundabout path from working class conditions to the professoriate." — Gay & Lesbian Review