TY - GEN N2 - Urban teens of color are often portrayed as welfare mothers, drop outs, drug addicts, and both victims and perpetrators of the many kinds of violence which can characterize life in urban areas. Although urban youth often live in contexts which include poverty, unemployment, and discrimination, they also live with the everydayness of school, friends, sex, television, music, and other elements of teenage lives. Inner City Kids explores how a group of African American, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, and Haitian adolescents make meaning of and respond to living in an inner-city community. The book focuses on areas of particular concern to the youth, such as violence, educational opportunities, and a decaying and demoralizing urban environment characterized by trash, pollution, and abandoned houses. McIntyre's work with these teens draws upon participatory action research, which seeks to codevelop programs with study participants rather than for them. DO - 10.18574/nyu/9780814723890.001.0001 DO - doi AB - Urban teens of color are often portrayed as welfare mothers, drop outs, drug addicts, and both victims and perpetrators of the many kinds of violence which can characterize life in urban areas. Although urban youth often live in contexts which include poverty, unemployment, and discrimination, they also live with the everydayness of school, friends, sex, television, music, and other elements of teenage lives. Inner City Kids explores how a group of African American, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, and Haitian adolescents make meaning of and respond to living in an inner-city community. The book focuses on areas of particular concern to the youth, such as violence, educational opportunities, and a decaying and demoralizing urban environment characterized by trash, pollution, and abandoned houses. McIntyre's work with these teens draws upon participatory action research, which seeks to codevelop programs with study participants rather than for them. T1 - Inner City Kids :Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community / AU - Mcintyre, Alice, JF - New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 VL - 4 CN - HQ796 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1479577 KW - Children and violence KW - Inner cities KW - Social work with youth KW - Urban youth KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban SN - 9780814723890 TI - Inner City Kids :Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814723890 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814723890 ER -