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Several narratives by Latino professors in American universities addressing issues of racism, marginalization, and self-valuation as the narrators tell their stories of survival and success.

Latino professors in American universities tell their own stories of survival within academia. Each story is a perspective, a slice of academic life. Collectively, the multiple perspectives in this volume provide a totality that is penetrating and disturbing but essential if we are to genuinely diversify our present and future professoriate. The accounts capture and challenge the academic cultural terrain as it is constructed and perceived by the writers--a cultural terrain that has been created to limit and exclude, based on and bound to cultural, racial, gender, religious, and class manifestations and oppressive traditions.

Each author, struggling with her and his own reality, is a study in authenticity and the engagement of liberation through self-critique. Through struggle with an oppressive academic world, the authors not only pursue their own liberation but simultaneously serve as liberating sponsors by restoring humanity back to those who oppress them. Thus, The Leaning Ivory Tower is not just a metaphor for what it is. It also confronts, reconfigures, and challenges us to redraw our paradigmatic and conceptual borders so that the democratic process will be a liberating practice evidenced throughout academia.

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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 A Chicano Farmworker in Academe
• Chapter 2 "Getting Tenure at the U"
• Chapter 3 Surviving the Journey
• Chapter 4 Actuando
• Chapter 5 In Search of the Voice I Always Had
• Chapter 6 Struggling with the Labels That Mark My Ethnic Identity
• Chapter 7 The Segregated Citadel: Some Personal Observations on the Academic Career Not Offered
• Chapter 8 The Odyssey of a Chicano Academic
• Chapter 9 MEMOrabilia from an Academic Life
• Chapter 10 Toward a Postview of the Chicano Community in Higher Education
• Chapter 11 What's in a Name? Conflict at a University for the Twenty-First Century
• Epilogue Held to a Higher Standard: Latino Executive Selection in Higher Education
• Contributors
• Index

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Raymond V. Padilla is Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Arizona State University. Rudolfo Chavez Chavez is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at New Mexico State University.