Pride in the Projects: Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts

by Nancy Deutsch and Nancy L. Deutsch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814719929
• ISBN13: 9780814719923
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"