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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
New York University Press
[2000]
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| Series: | Qualitative Studies in Psychology
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817325706719 |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814723890 9780585480572 |
