Table of Contents:
  • pt. II. Navegando el camino (Navigating the path)
  • 6. The Latina/o Ph. D. pipeline : a case of historical and contemporary under-representation / Frances E. Contreras, Patricia Gándara
  • 7. Latinas and the doctorate : the "status" of attainment and experience from the margin / Tara Watford [and others]
  • 8. Bridging two worlds : academia and Latina/o identity / Vasti Torres
  • 9. Differences and similarities : Latina and Latino doctoral students navigating the gender divide / Aída Hurtado, Mrinal Sinha
  • 10. Sustaining Latina/o doctoral students : a psychosociocultural approach for faculty / Alberta M. Gloria, Jeanett Castellanos.
  • pt. III. Aprendiendo de los pasajeros (Learning from the passengers)
  • 11. Finding my way : enculturation to the Ph. D. / Mark Kamimura
  • 12. Manteniendo nuestra cultura (Sustaining our culture) : cultural and social adjustments of Latina/os in doctoral programs / Rocio Rosales
  • 13. Maintaining a strong Latina/o identity while balancing trails / Raul Ramirez
  • 14. Querer es poder : maintaining and creating Familía as a doctoral student / Theresa A. Segura-Herrera
  • 15. Juggling intellectuality and Latino masculinity : La calle, mi familía y la escuela (The streets, my family, and school) / Claudio Gabriel Vera Sanchez
  • 16. The brown diamond : a Latina in the sciences / Marisa Garcia
  • 17. Collegial alliances? : exploring one Chicano's perspective on mentoring in research and academia / David Alberto Quijada
  • 18. Being Latina and ABD : ¿Cuando terminas mujer?! (When will you finish?!) / Petra Guerra
  • 19. Enderezando el camino (Strengthening the path) : dispelling myths and providing directions for Latina/o doctoral students / Jeanett Castellanos, Alberta M. Gloria, Mark Kamimura.