Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents
This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality, and why this process is a particulary critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism, inequality, violence and poverty. "Constructing Social Relaity: Self Portraits of poor Black Adolescents" makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive, linguistic, and experiential persepctives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.
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Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents
This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality, and why this process is a particulary critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism, inequality, violence and poverty. "Constructing Social Relaity: Self Portraits of poor Black Adolescents" makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive, linguistic, and experiential persepctives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.
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Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents
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Constructing Social Reality: Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781138420410 |
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| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Publication date: | 07/11/2017 |
| Pages: | 246 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
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