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Author Mcintyre, Alice.

Title Inner City Kids : Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community.

Imprint New York : NYU Press, 2000.

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Qualitative Studies in Psychology
Qualitative studies in psychology.
Contents 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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Children and violence -- United States.
Social work with youth -- United States.
Inner cities -- United States.
Urban youth -- United States -- Attitudes.
Enfants et violence -- États-Unis.
Service social ŕ la jeunesse -- États-Unis.
Jeunes en milieu urbain -- États-Unis -- Attitudes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Children and violence
Inner cities
Social work with youth
Urban youth -- Attitudes
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Genre/Form Electronic books.
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
0814723896
Standard No. AU@ 000055798079

 
    
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