The Power of Black and Latina/o Counterstories: Urban Families and College-Going Processes

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 99-120

  Knight, Michelle G ^a   Norton, Nadjwa E L ^a   Bentley, Courtney C ^a   Dixon, Iris R ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

College going; Counterstories; Family; Minorities; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842832238     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.1.99     Document Type: Article

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