The Color of Success: Race and High-achieving Urban Youth
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Gilberto Q. Conchas (Author)
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Through students' own voices and perspectives, this book reveals how and why some racial minorities achieve academic success, despite limited opportunity. Based on the experiences of Black, Latino, and Vietnamese urban high school students, the author provides a revealing comparative analysis that offers insight into how schools can provide opportunities and safe learning environments where youth acquire real goals, expectations, and tangible pathways for success. Offering alternatives to current practices and structures of inequality that plague educational systems throughout the nation, this sociologically informed book: takes a rare look at urban school success stories, instead of those depicting failure; explores the social processes that enable racial minority youth to escape the unequal structures of urban schooling to perform well in school; and, focuses on youth's interpretations and reactions to the schooling process to determine how schools can empower youth and promote the social mobility of low-income urban populations.
About the Author
Gilberto Q. Conchas is a faculty member in the Department of Education, Chicano/Latino Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
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- Contributor: Gilberto Q. Conchas
- Imprint: Teachers' College Press
- ISBN13: 9780807746608
- Number of Pages: 168
- Packaged Weight: 240
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Release Date: 2006-01-31
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Gilberto Q. Conchas is a faculty member in the Department of Education, Chicano/Latino Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
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