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1 online resource (256 pages). |
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Qualitative Studies in Psychology |
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Qualitative studies in psychology.
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Participatory Action Research; 2. Exploring Community; 3. Constructing Meaning about Violence; 4. Community Photography: Visual Stories by Inner-City Youth; 5. Becoming Somebody; 6. Exploring Racism, Whiteness, and Careers with Urban Youth; 7. From Dialogue to Action; 8. Making the Road As We Go. |
| 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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Print version record. |
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Children and violence -- United States.
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Social work with youth -- United States.
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Inner cities -- United States.
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Urban youth -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Enfants et violence -- États-Unis.
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Service social ŕ la jeunesse -- États-Unis.
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Jeunes en milieu urbain -- États-Unis -- Attitudes.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
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Children and violence
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Inner cities
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Social work with youth
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Urban youth -- Attitudes
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mcintyre, Alice. Inner City Kids : Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community. New York : NYU Press, ©2000 9780814756355 |
| ISBN |
9780814723890 |
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0814723896 |
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AU@ 000055798079 |
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