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Pride in the projects : teens building identities in urban contexts
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Teens in America's inner cities grow up and construct identities amidst a landscape of relationships and violence, support and discrimination, games and gangs. In such contexts, local environments ...
Teens in America's inner cities grow up and construct identities amidst a landscape of relationships and violence, support and discrimination, games and gangs. In such contexts, local environments such as after-school programs may help youth to mediate between social stereotypes and daily experience, or provide space for them to consider themselves as contributing members of a community. Based on four years of field work with both the adolescent members and staff of an inner-city youth organization in a large Midwestern city, Pride in the Projects examines the construction of identity as it oc
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- Creator
- Nancy L. Deutsch
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : New York University Press, c2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780814720363, 0814719929, 9780814719923, 9780814785218, 0814785212, 0814719910, 8147203667, 9788147203669, 9780814719916, 0814720366
- OCLC
- ocn779828337, ocn233536324, ocn191881993
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-270) and index.
- English
- "There are birds in the projects": understanding the ecology of adolescent development in urban America -- "I give people a lot of respect": the self in interpersonal relationships -- "I never thought kids would look up to someone like me": Lorenzo's story -- "I can't act ghetto in the ghetto no more": self, society, and social categories -- "I've never seen any dark-skinned girls in videos": Nicole's story -- "I can't lose to no girl, man": the gendered self -- "Manly, take charge, the head man, the king": John's story -- "If I never came here I'd be irresponsible, like a little kid": after-school programs as sites of development and identity construction
Subjects
- Identity (Psychology) in adolescence -- United States -- Case studies.
- Urban youth -- United States -- Psychology -- Case studies.
- Youth with social disabilities -- United States -- Psychology -- Case studies.
- Interpersonal relations -- United States -- Case studies.
- After-school programs -- United States.