"Recommended for anyone who works with inner-city youth."
--"Library Journal"
"This exceptionally important book will set the standard for
powerful writing about urban teenagers for years to come.
Privileging the voices of inner-city teens and presenting their
experiences of themselves and their worlds, Niobe Way's
intelligent, subtle voice leads us to listen freshly to this group
whose views are so often not heard or are distorted. She presents a
brilliant example of voice-centered research and essential reading
for anyone hoping to work effectively with adolescents."
--"Carol Gilligan, Author of In a Different Voice: Psychological
Theory and Women's Development"
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 psychologist, looks beyond the stereotypes to reveal
how the personal worldviews of inner-city poor and working-class
adolescents develop over time. In the process, she challenges much
conventional wisdom about inner-city youth and about adolescents
more generally.
She introduces us to Malcolm, a sensitive and proud young man
full of contradictions. We follow him as he makes the honor roll,
becomes a teenage father, and falls intodepression as his younger
sister is dying of cancer. We meet Eva, an intelligent and
confident young women full of questions, who grows increasingly
alienated from her mother and comes to rely on her best friends for
support. We watch her blossom as a ball player and a poet. We share
her triumph when she receives a scholarship to the college of her
choice.
In these 24 adolescents, Way finds a cross-section of youngsters
who want to make positive changes in their lives and communities
while struggling with concerns about betrayal, trust, racism,
violence, and death. Each adolescent wants most of all to "be
somebody," to have her or his voice heard.
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