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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807746606
• ISBN13: 9780807746608
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The Color of Success

The Color of Success is a refreshing and engaging look at successful students of color. Conchas strives to adequately portray the successes of urban school students who nagivated public schools through the support of social capital and career academies within their schools. An excellent tool for understanding social capital for high school students as well as a glimpse of the structure of career academies. Very well written.