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Pride in the Projects
2008
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 members and staff of an inner-city youth organization in
a large Midwestern city, Pride in the Projects
examines the construction of identity as it occurs within this
local context, emphasizing the relationships within which
identities are formed. Drawing on research in psychology,
sociology, education, and race and gender studies, the volume
highlights the inadequacies in current identity development
theories, expanding our understanding of the lives of urban teens
and the ways in which interpersonal connections serve as powerful
contexts for self-construction. The adolescents' stories illuminate
how they find ways to discover who they are, and who they would
like to be - in positive and healthy ways - in the face of very
real obstacles. The book closes with implications for practice,
alerting scholars, educators, practitioners, and concerned citizens
of the positive developmental possibilities inherent in youth
settings when we pay attention to the voices of youth.
Publisher
NYU Press,New York University Press
Subject
/ After-school programs-United States
/ Identity
/ Identity (Psychology) in adolescence
/ Identity (Psychology) in adolescence-United States-Case studies
/ Interpersonal relations-United States-Case studies
/ U.S.A
/ Urban youth-United States-Psychology-Case studies
/ Youth with social disabilities
/ Youth with social disabilities-United States-Psychology-Case studies
ISBN
9780814719916, 0814719910, 9780814719923, 0814719929, 0814785212, 9780814785218
