The Magic Key : : The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond /

The Magic Key : : The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond / / ed. by Ruth Enid Zambrana, Sylvia Hurtado.

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Mexican Americans comprise the largest subgroup of Latina/os, and their path to education can be a difficult one. Yet just as this group is often marginalized, so are their stories, and relatively few studies have chronicled the educational trajectory of Mexican American men and women. In this inter...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Alonzo Bell, Sally,
Burciaga, Rebeca,
Cabrera, Nolan L.,
Contreras, Frances,
De Jesús, Anthony,
Dávila, Brianne A.,
Enid Zambrana, Ruth,
Gándara, Patricia,
Hurtado, Sylvia,
MacDonald, Victoria-María,
Ponjuán, Luis,
Rivera, Jason,
Ruiz Alvarado, Adriana,
Sáenz, Victor B.,
TeilnehmendeR:
Gándara, Patricia.
HerausgeberIn:
Hurtado, Sylvia,
Zambrana, Ruth Enid,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (301 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • A Personal Narrative
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I. Setting the Context
  • 1. Locked Doors, Closed Opportunities: Who Holds the Magic Key?
  • 2. History’s Prism in Education: A Spectrum of Legacies across Centuries of Mexican American Agency; Experience and Activism 1600s–2000s
  • 3. Trend Analyses from 1971 to 2012 on Mexican American/ Chicano Freshmen: Are We Making Progress?
  • Part II. Conceptual Understandings
  • 4. An Intersectional Lens: Theorizing an Educational Paradigm of Success
  • 5. Parental Educational and Gender Expectations: Pushing the Educational Trajectory
  • 6. Examining the Influence of K–12 School Experiences on the Higher Education Pathway
  • 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
  • 8. Campus Climate, Intersecting Identities, and Institutional Support among Mexican American College Students
  • 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
  • 10. The Role of Educational Policy in Mexican American College Transition and Completion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Contributing Authors
  • Index

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