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Urban Girls - Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities (Hardcover, New)
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Urban Girls - Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities (Hardcover, New)
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One of the first volumes to showcase the lives of girls growing up
in urban poverty Sociologists have tried to analyze adolescents as
long as the discipline has existed. However, most studies have
focused on suburban youth, ignoring a large segment of the
population, the urban adolescent. "Urban Girls tries to reverse
this trend. The researchers included in this ambitious project
realize there is more to adolescence than the suburban experience.
The city has unique effects on the people who live there, and they
on it. Drawing on experts from across the country, Urban Girls
investigates what it is like to be young in an American city. This
book also explores the minority experience in America. It is
wonderful to see studies of Black and Latina youth that do not
automatically label them as future convicts, drug dealers, or with
other negative stereotypes."-The American Reporter Traditional
psychology textbooks have ignored the normative development of
urban girls and the unique situations they face on a daily basis.
Lumped together with their suburban, mostly white and middle class
counterparts, their voices are frequently subsumed within the
larger study of adolescent development. Urban Girls is the first
book to directly focus on the development of urban poor and working
class adolescent girls. Including both quantitative and qualitative
essays, and including contributions from psychologists,
sociologists, and public health scholars, this volume explores the
lives of a diverse group of girls from varying ethnic and class
backgrounds. Topics covered include the identity development of
Caribbean-American girls, the role of truth telling in the
psychological development of African-American girls, relationships
between mothers and daughters of different races and ethnicities,
friendships, sexuality, health risks, career development, and other
subjects of importance to human development. Filling a gap in the
literature of human development, Urban Girls is sure to be of use
to psychologists, sociologists, and social workers.
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