Pride in the Projects : Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts / Nancy L. Deutsch.
Deutsch, Nancy L., author.
2008
BF724.3.I3 D48 2008
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Title Pride in the Projects : Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts / Nancy L. Deutsch.
Author Deutsch, Nancy L., author.
ISBN 9780814785218
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814785218.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2008]
Copyright ©2008
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814785218.001.0001 doi
Call Number BF724.3.I3 D48 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 155.51825
Summary 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.
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Series Qualitative Studies in Psychology ; ; 5
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 "There Are Birds in the Projects": The Ecology of Adolescent Development in Urban America
2 "I Give People a Lot of Respect": The Self in Interpersonal Relationships
3 "I Never Thought Kids Would Look Up to Someone Like Me" Lorenzo's Story
4 "I Can't Act Ghetto in the Ghetto No More": Self, Society, and Social Categories
5 "I've Never Seen Any Dark-Skinned Girls in Videos" Nicole's Story
6 "I Can't Lose to No Girl, Man" The Gendered Self
7 "Manly, Take Charge, the Head Man, the King" John's Story
8 "If I Never Came Here I'd Be Irresponsible, Like a Little Kid" Aft er-School Programs as Sites of Development and Identity Construction
Appendix A Methods
Appendix B The Contextual Identity Interview: Protocol for Interview 1
Appendix C The Contextual Identity Interview: Protocol for Interview 2
Appendix D Photography Project
Appendix E Coding Guidelines for Individuated versus Connected Self-Descriptors
Notes
References
Index
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