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Identity & Inner-City Youth: Beyond Ethnicity and Genderreviewed by James W. Fraser - 1994 Title: Identity & Inner-City Youth: Beyond Ethnicity and Gender Author(s): Shirley Brice Heath, Milbrey W. McLaughlin Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807732524, Pages: 250, Year: 1993 Search for book at Amazon.com In November 1993, President Bill Clinton
made a highly publicized speech on the decline of values among
today's youth. Clinton blamed the current crisis among inner-city
youth on the breakdown of the family and the loss of a sense of
community among the current generation.[1] He--or his
speechwriters--would have been well served by reading Identity
& Inner- City Youth before developing that speech. While
Clinton argued a fairly simplistic story of a moral decline among
the current generation of younger Americans, Heath and McLaughlin
tell the complex story of the change--far more radical change than
is usually noted--that has taken place in the lives, communities,
values, and self-identity of the urban youth of the 1990s.
Identity & Inner-City Youth is an extraordinary book. Heath
and McLaughlin have pulled together a collection of essays--the
majority of which are written by one or both of the editors--that
shed very important new light on the full range of agencies that
are educating urban youth at the end of the... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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