UID:
kobvindex_HPB779828066
Umfang:
1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:
9780814723890
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0814723896
Serie:
Qualitative Studies in Psychology
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
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.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Mcintyre, Alice. Inner City Kids : Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community. New York : NYU Press, ©2000 ISBN 9780814756355
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
NYU Press Open Square
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