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The color of success 2.0 : race and transformative pathways for high-achieving urban youth / Gilberto Q. Conchas ; foreword by Cynthia Feliciano.

Van Pelt Library LC3731 .C628 2024
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Conchas, Gilberto Q., author.
Contributor:
Feliciano, Cynthia, 1973- writer of foreword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Children of minorities--Education--United States.
Children of minorities.
Education, Urban--United States.
Education, Urban.
Urban youth--United States.
Urban youth.
Successful people--United States.
Successful people.
Physical Description:
xx, 220 pages ; 23 cm
Edition:
Second edition.
Place of Publication:
New York ; London : Teachers College Press, [2024]
Summary:
"Conchas updates his groundbreaking book with new chapters on Black male optimism after President Obama's election, the role of school leaders, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: Race and transformative pathways to high-achieving urban youth
1. A critical perspective of the challenges confronting students of color: Toward a conceptual framework of transformative urban school pathways
2. Balkanization in urban school spaces: Integrated and segregated organizational cultures and structures side-by-side
3. "We just make the best of what we have": Immigrant and U.S.-born Vietnamese American youth surfing the "Model Minority" wave of success
4. "I want to make a difference": Understanding immigrant and U.S.-born Latina/o/x students' variability in academic aspirations, school engagement, and optimism
5. "Nothing can stop me now": Constructing Black student aspirations, expectations, and school success
6. "[Obama] becomin' President kinda raise the bar on what you're doin'": Perceptions of opportunity and constraining aspirations among Black male youth during a time of historic change
7. Institutional change agents: Student-centered approaches, culture shifts, and the construction of pathways for urban school success
8. "We are like a family...We know each other well and get along": Teacher and peer relationships as (pre)conditions for the potential realization of social capital
9. Racial inequity and transformative educational pathways informing policy and praxis: Wrapping it all up.
Notes:
First edition published in 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:
0807769916
9780807769911
0807769908
9780807769904
OCLC:
1419254054

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