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Author Way, Niobe, 1963-

Title Everyday courage : the lives and stories of urban teenagers / Niobe Way.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, ©1998.

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Description 1 online resource (320 pages)
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Series Qualitative Studies in Psychology
Qualitative studies in psychology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index.
Contents Interpreting narratives -- A study of urban youth -- Malcolm's story -- Voice and silence -- Desire and betrayal in friendships -- "I never put anyone in front of my mother" -- Maintaining a "positive attitude"/fearing death -- "Slacking up" in school -- Racism, sexism, and difference -- Eva's story.
Summary What does it mean to be a teenager in an American city at the close of the twentieth century? How do urban surroundings affect the ways in which teens grow up, and what do their stories tell us about human development? In particular, how do the negative images of themselves on television and in the newspaper affect their perspectives about themselves? Psychologists typically have shown little interest in urban youth, preferring instead to generalize about adolescent development from studies of their middle-class, suburban counterparts. In Everyday Courage Niobe Way, a developmental psychologis.
Note Print version record.
Subject Adolescence -- United States.
Teenagers with social disabilities -- United States -- Longitudinal studies.
Teenagers with social disabilities -- United States -- Case studies.
Urban youth -- United States -- Longitudinal studies.
Urban youth -- United States -- Case studies.
Adolescence -- États-Unis.
Adolescents socialement défavorisés -- États-Unis -- Études longitudinales.
Adolescents socialement défavorisés -- États-Unis -- Études de cas.
Jeunes en milieu urbain -- États-Unis -- Études longitudinales.
Jeunes en milieu urbain -- États-Unis -- Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Adolescence
Teenagers with social disabilities
Urban youth
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Genre/Form Case studies
Longitudinal studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Other Form: Print version: Way, Niobe. Everyday Courage : The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers. New York : NYU Press, ©1998 9780814793206
ISBN 9780814784891 (electronic bk.)
0814784895 (electronic bk.)
9780814793206
0814793207 (Trade Cloth)
0814793398 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780814793398
Standard No. 9780814793206
AU@ 000055802412
GBVCP 1008656836

 
    
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