City Of Broken Dreams By Sara Goldrick-Rab

City of Broken Dreams by Sara Goldrick-Rab Name Institution Course Instructor Date Colombo, G., Cullen, R., & Lisle, B. (2018). Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing. Bedford/Saint Martin’s.City Of Broken Dreams by Sara Goldrick-RabSara Goldrick-Rab, a professor studying higher education policy, takes readers on an unflinchingly honest and sobering journey through the harsh realities faced by low-income college students in Milwaukee. With her background founding the Wisconsin Hope Lab, a research center focused on making college more affordable, Goldrick-Rab serves as a trustworthy guide. She thoughtfully leads us through this troubled landscape, seamlessly interweaving hard-hitting statistical data with intimate, deeply humanizing narratives of individual students' lives.From the very outset, Goldrick-Rab establishes the daunting context with an unvarnished portrayal of Milwaukee as "one of the poorest and most segregated cities in America." The statistics she provides are staggering - over a third of households scraping by on less than $25,000 annually, 39% of African American residents living below the poverty line, and a black-white segregation level ranking as