Growing Up Poor

by Terry Williams and William Kornblum

Book Overview

This ethnographic study looks at teenagers trapped in poverty--how some succeed in the struggle to get out and others finally give up trying. It is an outgrowth of interviews with some 900 teens in New York City, Cleveland, Louisville, and Meridian, Mississippi. The neighborhoods where they live are socially and racially diverse. Among them are white areas slding into poverty as traditional blue-collar jobs in smokestack industries fade away, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0669102776
• ISBN13: 9780669102772
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.