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The Making of a Teenage Service Class : Poverty and Mobility in an American City /

"Stereotypes of economically marginalized black and brown youth focus on drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood. Families, schools, nonprofit organizations, and institutions in poor urban neighborhoods emphasize preventing such "risk behaviors." In The Making of a Teenage Service...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ray, Ranita, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The mobility puzzle and irreconcilable choices
  • Port city rising from the ashes
  • Sibling ties
  • Risky love
  • Saved by college
  • The making of a teenage service class
  • Internalizing uncertainty: bad genes, hunger, and homelessness
  • Uncertain success
  • Dismantling the construction of "At risk" discourse.