The cultural matrix : understanding Black youth / edited by Orlando Patterson ; with Ethan Fosse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Patterson, Orlando, 1940- editor.

Fosse, Ethan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American youth--Social conditions.

African American youth.

African American youth--Social life and customs.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

vii, 675 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction / Orlando Patterson, Ethan Fosse

The Nature and Dynamics of Cultural Processes / Orlando Patterson

The Social and Cultural Matrix of Black Youth / Orlando Patterson

The Values and Beliefs of Disconnected Black Youth / Ethan Fosse

Hip-Hop's Irrepressible Refashionability: Phases in the Cultural Production of Black Youth / Wayne Marshall

Continuity and Change in Neighborhood Culture: Toward a Structurally Embedded Theory of Social Altruism and Moral Cynicism / Robert J. Sampson

"I Do Me": Black Men and the Struggle to Resist the Street / Kathryn Edin, Robert Rosenblatt, Queenie Zhu

More than Just Black: Cultural Perils and Opportunities in Inner-City Neighborhoods / Van. C. Tran

The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth / Rajeev Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire, Erzo P. Luttmer, Josh Mitchell

Keeping Up the Front: How Disadvantaged Black Youths Avoid Street Violence in the Inner City / Joseph C. Krupnick and Christopher Winship

What About the Day After? Youth Culture in the Era of "Law and Order" / Sudhir Venkatesh

Culture, Inequality, and Gender Relations among Urban Black Youth / Jody Miller

Effects of Affluent Suburban Schooling: Learning Skilled Ways of Interacting with Educational Gatekeepers / Simone Ispa-Landa

"Try on the Outfit and Just See How It Works": The Psychocultural Responses of Disconnected Youth to Work / Orlando Patterson and Jacqueline Rivers

Stepping Up or Stepping Back: Highly Disadvantaged Parents' Responses to Building Strong Families Program / Andrew Clarkwest, Alexandra A. Killewald, Robert G. Wood

Beyond BA Blinders: Cultural Impediments to College Success / James E. Rosenbaum, Jennifer Stephan, Janet Rosen, Amy E. Foran, Pam Schuetz

Liberalism, Self-Respect, and Troubling Cultural Patterns in Ghettos / Tommie Shelby

Conclusion: What Have We Learned? / Orlando Patterson and Ethan Fosse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674728752

0674728750

OCLC:

876000051