Review of The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America, by Andrea Flores

The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America, offers a qualitative study on the value of education for present and future generations of Latinos living in the United States, as experienced and envisioned by high school youth in and around Nashville, Tennessee.The youth, who the author describes as the Succeeders, were all participants in a nonprofit college access program."Mostly from low-income Mexican and Central American families," they were on the cusp of becoming the first in their families to both graduate from high school and consider college in their immediate futures (p.1).