First-Generation Faculty of Color

TRACY LACHICA BUENAVISTA is a professor of Asian American studies at California State University, Northridge. She is the co-editor of Education At War!: The Fight for Students of Color in America’s Public Schools,  and “White” Washing in American Education: The New Culture Wars in Ethnic Studies. DIMPAL JAIN is a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at California State University, Northridge. She is the coauthor of Power to the Transfer: Critical Race Theory and a Transfer Receptive Culture. MARÍA C. LEDESMA is a professor of educational leadership and the founding director of the Higher Education Leadership Program at San Jose State University. 

Foreword 
CAROLINE SOTELLO VIERNES TURNER
Preface 
TRACY LACHICA BUENAVISTA, DIMPAL JAIN, AND MARÍA C. LEDESMA
Introduction: Toward a First-Generation Faculty Epistemology 
MARÍA C. LEDESMA

PART ONE
Research Illustration: Research with Community, Not on Community 
1 Food on the Table: The Hidden Curriculum of the Academic Job Market 
DIMPAL JAIN
2 Neoliberal Racism and the Experiences of First-Generation Asian American Scholars 
VARAXY YI AND SAMUEL D. MUSEUS
3 A Nanny’s Daughter in the Academy 
MARIA ESTELA ZARATE
4 On Navigating with Flavor: A Reluctant Professor on the Pathway Here 
DARRICK SMITH
5 What Are We Willing to Sacrifice? Mental Health among First-Generation Faculty of Color 
OMAR RUVALCABA

PART TWO
Teaching Illustration: “Échale Ganas” 

6 The Classroom as Negotiated Space: A Chinese-Vietnamese American Community College Faculty Experience 
CINDY N. PHU
7 Taking Up Space: Reflections from a Latina and a Filipino American Faculty Teaching for Racial Justice 
NORMA A. MARRUN AND CONSTANCIO R. ARNALDO JR.
8 Ambitions as a Ridah: Using Lived Experience as a Professional Asset Instead of a Liability 
PATRICK ROZ CAMANGIAN
9 Sage and Tissue Boxes: Critical Race Feminista Perspectives on Office Hours 
JOSÉ M. AGUILAR-HERNÁNDEZ AND ALMA ITZÉ FLORES

PART THREE
Service Illustration: Service Perception versus Service Reality 
10 Financial Redistribution as Faculty Service: “The Hustle” and Challenging Racist Classism in the Neoliberal University 
TRACY LACHICA BUENAVISTA
11 Mexicana and Boricua First-Generation Scholars: Serving Our Communities with Alma, Mente y Corazón 
JUDITH FLORES CARMONA, IVELISSE TORRES FERNANDEZ, AND EDIL TORRES RIVERA
12 Continuing Cultural Mismatches: Reflections from a First-Generation Latina Faculty Navigating the Academy 
REBECCA COVARRUBIAS
13 Fugitivity within the University as First-Generation Black-Pinay, Indigenous, and Chicanx Faculty: Cultivating an Undercommons 
NINI HAYES, DOLORES CALDERÓN, AND VERÓNICA NELLY VÉLEZ


Acknowledgments 
Notes on Contributors 
Index