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When race meets class : African Americans coming of age in a small city /

A rare, fifteen year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into their early adult years. Levine shows how their interaction and experience with multiple institutions (family, school, community) and individuals (par...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levine, Rhonda F. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2019]
Subjects:
African American youth > Social conditions.
African Americans > Race identity.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Hoveys' porch
  • School daze
  • Sports and a caring coach
  • The gender factor: bad black girls who are not all bad
  • From teenagers to adulthood: revisiting Hoveys' porch
  • Conclusion.