When race meets class : African Americans coming of age in a small city / Rhonda F. Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Rhonda F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American youth--Social conditions.

African American youth.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xv, 192 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

A rare, 15-year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into their early adult years. Levine shows how their interaction and experience with multiple institutions (family, school, community) and individuals (parents, friends, teachers, coaches, strangers) shape their hopes, fears, aspirations, and worldviews. The intersectionality of their social identities--how race, class, and gender come together to influence how they come to think about who they are--influences many behaviors that directly contradict their stated aspirations. Affected, too, by limited access to resources, these youths often take a path profoundly different from their stated values and life goals. Levine explores the volatility and constraints underlying their decision-making and behaviors. The book reveals the critical junctures and turning points shaping life trajectories, challenging many long-held assumptions about the persistence of racial inequality by offering new insights on the educational and occupational barriers facing young African Americans.

Contents:

Introduction

Hoveys' porch

School daze

Sports and a caring coach

The gender factor: bad black girls who are not all bad

From teenagers to adulthood: revisiting Hoveys' porch

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliogrpahical references (pages 186-189) and index.

ISBN:

0367134896

9780367134891

0367134888

9780367134884

OCLC:

1053480795