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Zusatztext "In this carefully nuanced and richly textured qualitative study! Hemmings follows the voices of a diverse array of high school students as they navigate their way through the crosscurrents of economics! politics! religion! and family life in contemporary America....Highly recommended."—CHOICE"There are altogether too few texts on the market that provide the detailed! reasoned account of American adolescence and schooling that Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools offers. This book attends to adolescence! it complicates popular but oversimplified notions about adolescents! and it documents how schools impact both individuals' and societal development."—Reba PageUniversity of California at Riverside"After reading this book...I am left with an increased appreciation of the nuanced ways that individuals construct meanings and futures within the variety of discourses that help shape kids in twenty-first century America."—Pamela J. BettisWashington State University"The knowledge that emerges from different school/life contexts among a diverse group of adolescents is very rich."—Sandra Winn TutwilerWashburn University Informationen zum Autor Annette B. Hemmings Klappentext This book provides a description and analysis of how adolescent students representing diverse racial, ethnic, social class, sexual and gender locations navigate American cultural crosscurrents in urban and suburban public high schools. It includes extensive ethnographic case studies of how diverse adolescents came of age in three U.S. public high schools. Zusammenfassung This book provides a description and analysis of how adolescent students representing diverse racial, ethnic, social class, sexual and gender locations navigate American cultural crosscurrents in urban and suburban public high schools. It includes extens Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface. New Age for Coming of Age. Surface Depths. Economic Domain: Il/licit Pursuit of Mobility. Kinship Domain: Family (Dis)connections. Religious Domain: Freedom of/From Religion. Political Domain: Democracy and Domination. Reaching Shore. Appendix. ...
