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Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education
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Abstract: College can be a complex time for Latinas, who are traditionally expected to leave home when they get married. In her essay “Only Daughter,” author Sandra Cisneros remarks, “After four years in college and two more in graduate school, and still no husband, my father shakes his head even now and says I wasted all that education.”
Wise Latinas is a collection of personal essays addressing the varied landscape of the Latina experience in higher education. For some Latinas, college, where they are vastly underrepresented, is the first time they are immersed in American culture outside their homes—and where the values of two cultures often clash. Wise Latinas is in part a response to this widening gap.
Featuring acclaimed writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Norma Cantú, and Julia Alvarez, to name a few, Wise Latinas shows that there is no one Latina college experience. With thoughtful and engaging pieces, Wise Latinas provides a platform for Latina writers to share their experiences in higher education and gives a voice to the many Latina women who have taken risks; embraced the new, confronted change; and maintained (and in some cases found) their roots. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Acknowledgments
Source Acknowledgments
Introduction (Jennifer De Leon)
I - Worlds Apart
ch. 1 Going the Distance (Blanca Torres)
ch. 2 Scrambled Channels (Yalitza Ferreras)
ch. 3 WhiteGirlColorlessAfriPana (Gail M. Dottin)
ch. 3 Nomadic (Ingrid Rojas Contreras)
ch. 4 Leaving Miami (Chantel Acevedo)
II - Rooms of Our Own
ch. 5 Las Otras (Celeste Guzman Mendoza)
ch. 6 Pancakes at 2 a.m. (Stephanie Elizondo Griest)
ch. 7 Independence (Iris Gomez)
ch. 8 Stories She Told Us (Daisy Hernández)
ch. 9 Who Goes to College? (Cecilia Rodriguez Milanés)
ch. 10 I’m Living in a Foreign Country (Toni Margarita Plummer)
ch. 11 My Stalker (Lorriane M. López)
III - Inside These Academic Walls
ch. 12 Rapunzel’s Ladder (Julia Alvarez)
ch. 13 Derrumbando Muros along an Academic Path (Norma Elia Cantú)
ch. 14 On Becoming Educated (Joy Castro)
ch. 15 La Silla (Ruth Behar)
IV - In Tribute, In Time
ch. 16 The Weight of Paper (Beatriz Terrazas)
ch. 17 To My Young Self (Erika Martinez)
ch. 18 After Yale (Li Yun Alvarado)
ch. 19 How to Leave Hialeah (Jennine Capó Crucet)
ch. 20 Only Daughter (Sandra Cisneros)
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Abstract: College can be a complex time for Latinas, who are traditionally expected to leave home when they get married. In her essay “Only Daughter,” author Sandra Cisneros remarks, “After four years in college and two more in graduate school, and still no husband, my father shakes his head even now and says I wasted all that education.”
Wise Latinas is a collection of personal essays addressing the varied landscape of the Latina experience in higher education. For some Latinas, college, where they are vastly underrepresented, is the first time they are immersed in American culture outside their homes—and where the values of two cultures often clash. Wise Latinas is in part a response to this widening gap.
Featuring acclaimed writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Norma Cantú, and Julia Alvarez, to name a few, Wise Latinas shows that there is no one Latina college experience. With thoughtful and engaging pieces, Wise Latinas provides a platform for Latina writers to share their experiences in higher education and gives a voice to the many Latina women who have taken risks; embraced the new, confronted change; and maintained (and in some cases found) their roots. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Acknowledgments
Source Acknowledgments
Introduction (Jennifer De Leon)
I - Worlds Apart
ch. 1 Going the Distance (Blanca Torres)
ch. 2 Scrambled Channels (Yalitza Ferreras)
ch. 3 WhiteGirlColorlessAfriPana (Gail M. Dottin)
ch. 3 Nomadic (Ingrid Rojas Contreras)
ch. 4 Leaving Miami (Chantel Acevedo)
II - Rooms of Our Own
ch. 5 Las Otras (Celeste Guzman Mendoza)
ch. 6 Pancakes at 2 a.m. (Stephanie Elizondo Griest)
ch. 7 Independence (Iris Gomez)
ch. 8 Stories She Told Us (Daisy Hernández)
ch. 9 Who Goes to College? (Cecilia Rodriguez Milanés)
ch. 10 I’m Living in a Foreign Country (Toni Margarita Plummer)
ch. 11 My Stalker (Lorriane M. López)
III - Inside These Academic Walls
ch. 12 Rapunzel’s Ladder (Julia Alvarez)
ch. 13 Derrumbando Muros along an Academic Path (Norma Elia Cantú)
ch. 14 On Becoming Educated (Joy Castro)
ch. 15 La Silla (Ruth Behar)
IV - In Tribute, In Time
ch. 16 The Weight of Paper (Beatriz Terrazas)
ch. 17 To My Young Self (Erika Martinez)
ch. 18 After Yale (Li Yun Alvarado)
ch. 19 How to Leave Hialeah (Jennine Capó Crucet)
ch. 20 Only Daughter (Sandra Cisneros)
Contributors