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Price, J. N. (2000). Against the odds: The meaning of school and relationships in the lives of six young African-American men. Stamford, CT: Ablex. 239 pages, $32.50 (softcover). ISBN 1–56750–497–3. A White middle class man with experience in South Africa and the United States who is presently an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park, Jeremy N. Price has written a book that adds significantly to the research literature on the lives of young African American men. Price’s research is based primarily on narrative data gathered from interviews with six young men, ages 15 to 17, who were committed to staying in high school within the metropolitan area of Allerton, Michigan. Chapter 1 lays the framework for the study and informs the reader of the researcher’s intent to challenge undimensional images through the intersecting and overlapping lenses of race, class, and sex. As described by Price, the book’s objectives are as follows: