The Succeeders - How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America (Volume 53)

The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America (Volume 53)



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English | ISBN: 0520376846 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 9 MB

A powerful and challenging look at what “success” and belonging mean in America through the eyes of Latino high schoolers.

This book challenges dominant representations of the so-called American Dream, those “patriotic” narratives that focus on personal achievement as the way to become an American. This narrative misaligns with the lived experience of many first- and second-generation Latino immigrant youth who thrive because of the nurture of their loved ones. A story of social reproduction and change, illustrates how ideological struggles over who belongs in this country, who is valuable, and who is an American are worked out by young people through their ordinary acts of striving in school and caring for friends and family.