Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Maria Herrera-Sobek. Power, Race, and Gender in Academe: Strangers in the Tower? New York: The Modern Language Association, 2000. Cloth $7.50; paper $18.00. 212 pp.

by Patti Duncan

Power, Race, and Gender in Academe should be essential reading for anyone interested in power dynamics in the academy. Readers of Feminist Teacher, in particular, will appreciate this collection's breadth and its authors' emphasis on teaching conflicts and practical strategies for transformational pedagogies. Emphasizing the politics of race and gender in the humanities, Lim and Herrera-Sobek's text includes essays by eleven authors, ranging from graduate students to professors and administrators. While brief, the collection generates significant questions for those of us in higher education: Have women, people of color, and gays and lesbians been successfully integrated into humanities departments? What can higher education administrators and faculty members do to transform curriculum, pedagogy, and administrative structures to better recruit and retain members of marginalized communities, and how are we to sustain deep change?