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

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 301 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; book thirty-eight
Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 38.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 1600s-2000s (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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Mexican Americans -- Education.
Mexican Americans -- Education.
Education -- Social aspects -- United States.
Education -- Social aspects.
United States.
Minorities -- Education -- United States.
Minorities -- Education.
Discrimination in education.
Discrimination in education.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Zambrana, Ruth E., editor.
Hurtado, Sylvia, 1957- editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9781477303702 1477303707 (DLC) 2015004428 (OCoLC)903487814
ISBN 9781477307267 (electronic book)
1477307265 (electronic book)
9781477307274
1477307273
9781477303702 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1477303707 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781477307250 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1477307257 (paperback ; alkaline paper)