Published in 2015. Based on survey data from 2001, 36 interviews conducted in 2005, and four interviews conducted in 2010.
Its primary insight is that urban students "cross boundaries" -- both physical AND symbolic, on their way to school.
It is full of platitudes like "place matters."
It is generally uninformative.
Has anyone else read it? What do you think?
I'm not interested in hearing from SJMR's resident racists or the alt-soc Gipper brigade. What do real sociologists studying education, race, and urban inequality think of this book?