Our schools suck students talk back to a segregated nation on the failures of urban education / [electronic resource] :
Gaston Alonso ... [et al.].
- New York : New York University Press, c2009.
- ix, 289 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-274) and index.
Culture trap: talking about young people of color and their education -- "I hate it when people treat me like a fxxx-up": phony theories, segregated schools, and the culture of aspiration among African American and Latino teenagers -- "They ain't hiring kids from my neighborhood": young men of color negotiating public schools and poor work options in New York City -- "Where youth have an actual voice": teenagers as empowered stakeholders in school reform.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Education, Urban--United States. De facto school segregation--United States. Minority teenagers--Education--United States. Minority teenagers--Attitudes.--United States