TY - BOOK AU - Zambrana,Ruth Enid AU - Hurtado,Sylvia AU - Gándara,Patricia TI - The Magic Key: The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond T2 - Louann Atkins Temple Women and Culture Series SN - 9781477307267 AV - LC2682 U1 - 371.829/68073 PY - 2015/// CY - Austin PB - University of Texas Press KW - Mexican Americans-Education KW - Education-Social aspects-United States KW - Minorities-Education-United States KW - Discrimination in education KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- 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 N2 - No detailed description available for "The Magic Key" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3443788 ER -