Pride in the Projects : : Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts / / Nancy L. Deutsch.

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• VerfasserIn: Deutsch, Nancy L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Qualitative Studies in Psychology ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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...

Table of Contents

• 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
• About the Author