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ED360415 UD029323
Title: Identity and Inner-City Youth: Beyond Ethnicity and Gender.
Author(s): Heath, Shirley Brice, Ed.; McLaughlin, Milbrey W., Ed.
Pages: 255
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0-8077-3252-4
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027 (alkaline paper--ISBN-0-8077-3253-2; paperback--ISBN-0-8077-3252-4).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020); Reports--Evaluative (142)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIEDEC1993
How ethnic
identity and gender figure in building the embedded identities of
youth in different contexts is examined, focusing on the self-concepts
of inner-city youth. The voices of urban youth argue that their
embedded identities, or multilayered self-conceptions, represent
far more than simple labels of ethnic or racial membership. After
an introduction "Identity and Inner-City Youth" by the
editors, the following chapters are provided: (1) "Ethnicity
and Gender in Theory and Practice: The Youth Perspective" (S.
B. Heath and M. W. McLaughlin); (2) "Embedded Identities: Enabling
Balance in Urban Contexts" (M. W. McLaughlin); (3) "Dances
of Identity: Finding an Ethnic Self in the Arts" (A. Ball and
S. B. Heath); (4) "Gangs, Social Control, and Ethnicity: Ways
To Redirect" (J. D. Vigil); (5) "Child Saving and Children's
Cultures at Century's End" (G. A. Fine and J. Mechling); (6)
"Collaborate or Go It Alone? Tough Decisions for Youth Policy"
(J. Langman and M. W. McLaughlin); (7) "The Winnowing of Organizations"
(T. James); (8) "Misperceptions of Gender and Youth: Learning
Together, Learning Apart" (E. Hansot); and (9) "Casting
the Self: Frames for Identity and Dilemmas for Policy" (M.
W. McLaughlin and S. B. Heath). (SLD)
Descriptors: *Adolescents; Art Education; Childhood Needs; *Disadvantaged
Youth; Elementary Secondary Education; *Ethnicity; *Inner City;
Juvenile Gangs; Policy Formation; *Racial Identification; Self Concept;
Sexual Identity; Social Control; Theory Practice Relationship; Urban
Problems; *Urban Youth
Identifiers: *Identity (Psychological)
