Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline

"The perfect combination of empiricism, qualitative analysis, and literature. Engaged scholarship at its best." -- Richard Delgado, Distinguished Professor of Law & Derrick Bell Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
"Tara Yosso is a prolific contributor to the path-breaking area of critical race theory in education, and is both a rigorous scholar and powerful storyteller. Her critical race counterstories are grounded in wide-ranging data, and challenge us to consider race, class, gender, language, and immigration status in relationship to the schooling of Chicanas/Chicanos. This book represents provocative, insightful, and accessible scholarship from which students, educators, and educational researchers have much to gain." -- Dolores Delgado Bernal, Associate Professor of Education and Ethnic Studies, University of Utah

"This is an outstanding contribution to the growing scholarship on Chicana/o education. Yosso skillfully provides the field with the most powerful and insightful analysis ever produced about the experiences Chicanas/os endure as they navigate the obstacle-laden educational pipeline, from elementary school through graduate school. Using the lens of critical race theory and a rich corpus of social science research, Yosso shapes multiple counterstories into a dynamic fusion of shared discourse that challenges social and racial injustice along the educational pipeline. Critical Race Counterstories offers visibility to the invisible, and much hope to Chicanas/os who face despair at the margins of society." -- Richard R. Valencia, Professor of Educational Psychology and Faculty Associate of the Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

"[Tara J. Yosso's] stellar scholarship provides the missing voices of students through counterstories, a methodological strategy based on a cutting-edge framework: critical race theory in education...The valuable book offers the fields of both Chicano studies and education new methodologies and theoretical frameworks with which to analyze Chicana/o students' experiences."--Journal of Latinos and Education, 6(1) by Valerie Talavera-Bustillos, California State University, Los Angeles

2008 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award Winner