Format:
Online-Ressource (256 p.)
ISBN:
9780814756355
Series Statement:
Qualitative Studies in Psychology
Content:
Urban teens of color are often portrayed as welfare mothers, drop outs, drug addicts, and both victims and perpetrators of the many kinds of violence which can characterize life in urban areas. Although urban youth often live in contexts which include poverty, unemployment, and discrimination, they also live with the everydayness of school, friends, sex, television, music, and other elements of teenage lives. Inner City Kids explores how a group of African American, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, and Haitian adolescents make meaning of and respond to living in an inner-city community. The book focuse
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Participatory Action Research; 2. Exploring Community; 3. Constructing Meaning about Violence; 4. Community Photography: Visual Stories by Inner-City Youth; 5. Becoming Somebody; 6. Exploring Racism, Whiteness, and Careers with Urban Youth; 7. From Dialogue to Action; 8. Making the Road As We Go;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814723890
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814756355
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Inner City Kids : Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community
Language:
English
Keywords:
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