A Good Investment?: Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School

by Amy Brown

Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school Amy Brown calls College Preparatory Academy. It was their job to convince wealthy attendants that College Prep, with its largely minority and disadvantaged student body and its unusually high rate of graduation and college acceptance, was a worthy investment. To this end, students and teachers tried to seem needy and deserving, hoping to make...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816691142
• ISBN13: 9780816691142
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"