Understanding Teenage Girls: Culture, Identity and Schooling

By Horace Hall and Andrea Brown-Thirston

This book focuses on social phenomenon that impact the lives of adolescent females of color. The authors highlight the daily challenges that African-American, Chicana, and Puerto Rican teenage girls face with respect to peer and family influences, media stereotyping, body image, community violence, pregnancy, and education. The authors also emphasize the incredible resiliency that young women possess in countering many of the social barriers confronting them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610480511
• ISBN13: 9781610480512
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: R & L Education
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"