Everyday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers

Everyday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers
ISBN-10
0814793207
ISBN-13
9780814793206
Series
Everyday Courage
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
1998-04
Publisher
NYU Press
Author
Niobe Way

Description

Developmental psychologist Way interprets first-person accounts of what it means to be among the nearly 40 percent of poor and/or ethnic minority adolescents in the 1990s, drawing upon 71 interviews (protocols appended) with a sample of the 95-plus percent who do not meet the media stereotypes of destructive urban teens or superheroes. With relational themes clustered in conceptual matrices, and statistics belying perceptions of the degree of high-risk behavior among youth, she challenges the pathological pictures which emerge from quantitative studies representing them in preconceived categories. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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