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

by Alice McIntyre

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814756360
• ISBN13: 9780814756362
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"