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Substance of Fire

Gender and Race in the College Classroom
With contributed material by Riley Blanks, Blake Calhoun, Rox Trujillo
Sean Frederick Forbes, 2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY Editor
JUL. 2018

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R. Joseph Rodríguez Richard Delgado ISBN: 978-1-940939-68-1 8.25 x 8.25; 198 pp. 2017963108 2LP BOOK REVIEWS SF042018 , ,
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Meet The Author

Claire Millikin

SUBSTANCE OF FIRE: GENDER AND RACE IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM brings readers inside the four-year college experience, unfolding multiple perspectives and voices. This multi-genre book, written by college professor Claire Millikin, explores how race and gender function within the privilege of the four-year college classroom. Additional contributions are from recent graduates and current faculty, who interrogate the forces of sexism and racism from the various perspectives of gay, straight, biracial, white, African American, and Latino writers and artists. How does being a female professor differ from being a male professor? How does being a lesbian student make a difference in terms of accessing a professor’s time, attention, and respect? How does having dark skin or a non-Anglo last name impact a student’s freedom to pursue different majors? These and more questions are examined in THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE. As the title suggests, race and gender are not topics “under control” in higher education but instead they are flash points, tinder, waiting just under the surface of our culture that still makes the claim of equal access to higher education even as so many lives testify to the incompleteness of this so-called equality. Gender and race can ignite, causing pain in the college setting. This book goes to the place of that fire. Cover art and design: Dé-Jon Graves.

Contributors

Foreword by R. Joseph Rodríguez

R. JOSEPH RODRÍGUEZ is a literacy educator and researcher in the Texas Hill Country and San Joaquín Val-ley of California. He is the author of Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites and several journal articles. Rodríguez has taught English and Spanish language arts in pub-lic schools, community colleges, and universities. His research areas include children’s and young adult lit-erature, language acquisition, and socially responsible biliteracies. He served as an assistant professor in the Kremen School of Education and Human Development at California State University, Fresno.

Afterword by Richard Delgado

RICHARD DELGADO is a legal scholar and law professor at the University of Alabama. He is the author of several books and legal papers specializing in critical race theory and is widely regarded as one of Ameri-ca’s foremost critical race scholars. His books and articles include The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversa-tions About America and Race, When Equality Ends: Stories About Race and Resistance, “Four Res-ervations on Civil Rights Reasoning by Analogy,” and “The Imperial Scholar: Reflections on a Review of Civil Rights Literature.”

Contributors

RILEY BLANKS is a 2013 graduate of the University of Virginia. She is currently a freelance photographer based in Texas and is the founder of the photography studio Woke Beauty.

BLAKELEY CALHOUN is a 2015 graduate of the University of Virginia. A member of the University of Virgin-ia’s Serpentine Society, Calhoun is currently a graduate student at Michigan State University and is also an Assistant Community Director.

ROX TRUJILLO is a 2014 graduate of the University of Virginia. With family roots in South America and Eu-rope, Trujillo currently lives in the DC Metropolitan area, where she continues to work in photography and practices martial arts.

Here's What People Are Saying

“Given the rapidly changing demographics of the nation and the college study population, it is vital that we have a deeper understanding of the dynamics around race and gender in the classroom. SUBSTANCE OF FIRE brings those dynamics to life from an artistic perspective, showing us the passion, hurt, warmth, fear, and motivations that exist across gender and race in our classrooms and the academy overall.” ~Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania, co-author of Educating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority-Serving Institutions (2017)

“Claire Milliken and her co-authors have produced an honest, penetrating account of the quiet ordeal faced by non-white, non-cisgender, non-male students and faculty at a major university. The formerly silenced voices of students and faculty appear here with complexity and depth, sharing their struggles for authenticity in institutions designed to welcome others and not them. This fine book bears witness to the silent pain of minority status and offers compass to anyone who feels vulnerable and silenced in the midst of discovering an emerging self.” ~Juan F. Perea, Loyola University Chicago, School of Law, and co-author of Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (2007)

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