17. Who Holds the Mirror? Creating "the Consciousness of the Others"

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction: Identity Politics in the College Classroom, or Whose Issue Is This, Anyway? 1
5. I. Multiculturalist Pedagogies
6. 2. Redefining America: Literature, Multiculturalism, Pedagogy 23
7. 3. Straight Teacher/Queer Classroom: Teaching as an Ally 47
8. 4. The Outsider's Gaze 70
9. 5. No Middle Ground? Men Teaching Feminism 85
10. II. The Class Roster
11. 6. The Discipline of History and the Demands of Identity Politics 107
12. 7. Teaching What I'm Not: An Able-Bodied Woman Teaches Literature by Women with Disabilities 131
13. 8. Theory, Practice, and the Battered (Woman) Teacher 155
14. III. Professorial Identities
15. 9. Teaching What the Truth Compels You to Teach: A Historian's View 177
16. 10. Pro/(Con)fessing Otherness: Trans(cending)national Identities in the English Classroom 195
17. 11. Caliban in the Classroom 215
18. 12. A Paradox of Silence: Reflections of a Man Who Teaches Women's Studies 228
19. IV. The Texts and Contexts of Teaching What You're Not
20. 13. Teaching in the Multiracial Classroom: Reconsidering "Benito Cerenon 241
21. 14. "Young Man, Tell Our Stories of How We Made It Over": Beyond the Politics of Identity 259
22. 15. Disciplines and Their Discomforts: The Challenges of Study and Service Abroad 285
23. 16. Scratching Heads: The Importance of Sensitivity in an Analysis of "Others" 308
24. 17. Who Holds the Mirror? Creating "the Consciousness of the Others" 315
25. 18. Daughters of the Dust, the White Woman Viewer, and the Unborn Child 335
26. Contributors 357
27. Index 363