Hidden Lives

by Duncan Green

Book Overview

On Third World streets or First World televisions, Latin America's children are seen but seldom listened to. Child labourers, street children and shanty town kids are portrayed in the West as helpless victims, passive, big-eyed and hungry, besieged by poverty and violence. However, this text argues that if you talk to the children themselves a different picture emerges - one of children as active, energetic and resourceful fighters, struggling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304336882
• ISBN13: 9780304336883
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"