num_pages: 168
description: 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 
language: English
title: The Color of Success: Race and High-Achieving Urban Youth
titlecomplete: The Color of Success: Race and High-Achieving Urban Youth
genres: Education
ratings_count: 27
publisher: Teachers College Press