Through a collection of original case studies, this volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in distinct U.S. and international contexts. It explores the processes that keep students thriving academically and socially, and outlines the patterns that exist among individuals-students, teachers, parents-to resist the hegemony of the dominant class and school failure. With emphasis on racial formation theory, this volume fundamentally argues that education, despite inequality, remains the best hope of achieving the American dream.

Gilberto Q. Conchas is professor of education policy and social context at the University of California, Irvine. Conchas' research focuses on inequality with an emphasis on urban communities and schools. He is the author of The Color of Success: Race and High-Achieving Urban Youth (2006), Small Schools and Urban Youth: Using the Power of School Culture to Engage Youth (2008), and StreetSmart SchoolSmart: Urban Poverty and the Education of Adolescent Boys (2012).

Michael A. Gottfried is an assistant professor in the department of education at the Gevirtz School at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Gottfried's research focuses on the economics of education and education policy. Using the analytic tools from these disciplines, he has examined issues pertaining to peer effects, classroom context, and STEM. Dr. Gottfried has published numerous articles in these areas and won multiple scholarly awards for his research, including the AERA's Outstanding Publication in Methodology Award (2010 and 2012) and the Highest Reviewed Paper Award (2013).

Introduction SEAN DRAKE, GILBERTO Q. CONCHAS, BRIANA M. HINGA,AND MICHAEL A. GOTTFRIED PART I: Overview 1 Conceptualizing Disparity and Opportunity in Education as a Racial Project: A Comparative Perspective ALEX ROMEO LIN, SEAN DRAKE, AND GILBERTO Q. CONCHAS PART II: Boys and Men of Color: Resilience and the Construction of Urban School Success 2 The Problematization of Cambodian Adolescent Boys in U.S. Schools: Beyond the Model Minority Stereotype of Asian American Youth VICHET CHHUON 3 "I Am Not the Stereotype": How an Academic Club in an Urban School Empowered Black Male Youth to Succeed SEAN DRAKE, GILBERTO Q. CONCHAS, AND LETICIA OSEGUERA 4 Dynamics of Urban Neighborhood Reciprocity: Latino Peer Ties, Violence, and the Navigation of School Failure and Success MARÍA G. RENDÓN PART III: Gender, Self-Identity, and the Cultivation of Sociopolitical Resistance 5 Beyond "Warming Up" and "Cooling Out": The Effects of Community College on a Diverse Group of Disadvantaged Young Women KELLY NIELSEN 6 Bicultural Myths, Rifts, and Scripts: A Case Study of Hidden Chicana/Latina Teacher's Cultural Pedagogy in Multiracial Schools GLENDA M. FLORES 7 Gendered Expectations and Sexualized Policing: Latinas' Experiences in a Public High School G ILDA L. OCHOA PART IV: Immigrant Global Communities, Disparity, and the Struggle for Legitimacy 8 Diffi cult Transitions: Undocumented Immigrant Students Navigating Vulnerability and School Structures R OBERTO G. GONZALES AND CYNTHIA N. CARVAJAL 9 The Diaspora Speaks Back: Youth of Migration Speaking Back to Discourses of Power and Empire A NNE RÍOS-ROJAS 10 Global Urban Youth Culture: Peer Status and Orientations toward School among Children of Immigrants in New York and London NATASHA K. WARIKOO