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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McIntyre, Alice, 1956-

Series:

Qualitative Studies in Psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children and violence--United States.

Children and violence.

Social work with youth--United States.

Social work with youth.

Inner cities--United States.

Inner cities.

Urban youth--United States--Attitudes.

Urban youth.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Participatory action research

Exploring community

Constructing meaning about violence

Community photography : visual stories by inner-city youth

Becoming somebody

Exploring racism, whiteness, and careers with urban youth

From dialogue to action

Making the road as we go.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814723890

0814723896

9780585480572

0585480575

OCLC:

779828066