Working-Class Minority Students' Routes to Higher Education

<p>While stories of working-class and minority students overcoming obstacles to attend and graduate from college tend to emphasize the individualistic and meritocratic aspect this book - based in extensive empirical study of American high school classrooms and in theories of social and cultural capital - examines the social relations that often underpin such successes highlighting the significant formal and informal academic interventions by educators and other education professionals.</p>