Beyond Affirmative Action: Reframing the Context of Higher Education

Contents

Contents Tables ix Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Part I Reframing the Context of Higher Education 1 Critical Junctures for Change 3 2 The Latino Study: Reconceptualizing Culture and Changing the Dynamics of Ethnicity 20 3 Multicontextuality: A Hidden Dimension in Higher Education 43 Part II Latinas and Latinos in Graduate Education and Beyond 4 The Graduate School Experience: Ethnicity in Transformation 81 5 “They Really Forget Who They Are”: Latinos and Academic Organizational Culture 107 6 Latinos and Latinas Encountering the Professoriate 138 Part III The Engagement of Cultural Context in Academia 7 Teaching, Testing, and Measuring Intelligence: Uncovering the Evidence That Cultural Context Is Important 181 8 Reframing the Cultural Context of the Academy: A New Infrastructure for Teaching, Learning, and Institutional Change 222 Appendix 1 Institutions Attended by Interviewees 263 Appendix 2 Graduate Enrollment, 1986–1996 265 Appendix 3 Latino Faculty Issues 266 Notes 269 References 281 Index 305 ...