Identity and Inner-City Youth

by Shirley Brice Heath and Milbrey W. McLaughlin

Book Overview

What do effective youth organizations offer inner-city youngsters that schools do not? This book suggests that educators can learn much from inner-city social and youth organizations, which reach at-risk youngsters by developing a sense of family that many of them fail to get at home.

Addressing a variety of issues--collaboration across organizations, the role of gangs in social control, the historical roles of ethnicity and gender in youth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807732524
• ISBN13: 9780807732526
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"