The Color of Success: Race and High-Achieving Urban Youth

by Gilberto Q. Conchas

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 create 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

Genres: Education

168 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2006

Reviews

[Allison Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book ages ago and still think about it to this day and I just remembered the name of it so marking it down on my goodreads lol

[David Carrasquillo · Rating 3 out of 5]

It gets to the real issues without dancing around them. Nice analysis.