Inner City Kids : Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community /

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...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
McIntyre, Alice
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York ; London : New York University Press, [2000]
Zusammenfassung:
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
Umfang:
1 online resource (256 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.
ISBN:
9780814723890
0814723896
9780585480572
0585480575
Schlagworte:
Children and violence > United States.
Social work with youth > United States.
Inner cities > United States.
Urban youth > United States > Attitudes.
Electronic books.
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