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
