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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461479903321

Titolo

The magic key : the educational journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to college and beyond / / edited by Ruth Enid Zambrana and Sylvia Hurtado ; foreword by Patricia Gándara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4773-0726-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Louann Atkins Temple Women and Culture Series ; ; Book 38

Disciplina

371.829/68073

Soggetti

Mexican Americans - Education

Education - Social aspects - United States

Minorities - Education - United States

Discrimination in education

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword (Patricia Gándara); A Personal Narrative (Sally Alonzo Bell, PhD); Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part I. Setting the Context; 1. Locked Doors, Closed Opportunities: Who Holds the Magic Key? (Ruth Enid Zambrana and Sylvia Hurtado); 2. History's Prism in Education: A Spectrum of Legacies across Centuries of Mexican American Agency;  Experience and Activism 1600's-2000's (Victoria-María MacDonald and Jason Rivera); 3. Trend Analyses from 1971 to 2012 on Mexican American/Chicano Freshmen: Are We Making Progress? (Sylvia Hurtado); Part II. Conceptual Understandings

4. An Intersectional Lens: Theorizing an Educational Paradigm of Success (Ruth Enid Zambrana and Sylvia Hurtado)5. Parental Educational and Gender Expectations: Pushing the Educational Trajectory (Ruth Enid Zambrana and Rebeca Burciaga); 6. Examining the Influence of K-12 School Experiences on the Higher Education Pathway (Ruth Enid Zambrana, Anthony De Jesús, and Brianne A. Dávila); Part III. Contemporary College Experiences

7. The Ivory Tower Is Still White: Chicana/o-Latina/o College Students'



Views on Racism, Ethnic Organizations, and Campus Racial Segregation (Nolan L. Cabrera and Sylvia Hurtado)8. Campus Climate, Intersecting Identities, and Institutional Support among Mexican American College Students (Adriana Ruiz Alvarado and Sylvia Hurtado); Part IV. Implications for Educational Policy and Future Practices in P-16 Pathways and Beyond; 9. Mexican American Males' Pathways to Higher Education: Awareness to Achievement (Luis Ponjuán and Victor B. Sáenz)

10. The Role of Educational Policy in Mexican American College Transition and Completion (Frances Contreras)Notes; Bibliography; Contributing Authors; Index