In Racial Domination, Racial Progress, and the Sociology of Race in America, the authors introduce a very important statement. According to Desmond & Emirbayer, many of our teachers who teach in “urban” areas are teachers who do not have the best qualifications and who, given the nature of the place in which they work, face many adversities due to the lack of resources of their teachers. schools. I can personally relate to this, because when I was in both middle school and high school, many of my teachers had to not only buy, but many times provide their students with pencils, paper, and other school essentials. materials. Unlike schools in Barrington, RI, schools on the south side of Providence have very little to offer their students; the textbooks needed for lessons are torn from the pages half the time, the noise-filled corridors are controllable only by after-school detentions that only make things worse, and the teachers, given the distractions and interruptions at within classrooms, over time, they isolate themselves from their students. Some may argue that being successful or not is a "personal choice"; that it's up to us to decide when, where and why to decide that it's time to leave everything behind and set out for success. Despite this popular belief it continues to thrive