students talk back to a segregated nation on the failures of urban education /
Gaston Alonso ... [et al.]
New York :
New York University Press,
c2009
ix, 289 p. ;
23 cm
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