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The Magic Key: The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond
Ruth Enid Zambrana
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Description for The Magic Key: The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond
Paperback. Editor(s): Zambrana, Ruth Enid; Hurtado, Sylvia. Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JNFR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 233 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
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 interdisciplinary collection, editors Zambrana and Hurtado have brought together research studies that reveal new ways to understand how and why members of this subgroup have succeeded and how the facilitators of success in higher education have changed or remained the same. The Magic Key's four sections explain the ... Read more
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 interdisciplinary collection, editors Zambrana and Hurtado have brought together research studies that reveal new ways to understand how and why members of this subgroup have succeeded and how the facilitators of success in higher education have changed or remained the same. The Magic Key's four sections explain the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
Condition
New
Weight
527g
Number of Pages
327
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477307250
SKU
V9781477307250
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About Ruth Enid Zambrana
Ruth Enid Zambrana is a professor in the Department of Women's Studies, director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, and adjunct professor of family medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine. Sylvia Hurtado is a professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, where she also served as Director of the ... Read more
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