Title: Running for their lives : girls, cultural identity, and stories of survival /
Authors: Inness, Sherrie A.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Girls Social conditions Case studies.; Minority youth Social conditions Case studies.; Racism Case studies.; Marginality, Social Case studies.
Contents: Introduction: Girl problems / Sherrie A. Inness -- Coming to America: not the movie by Eddie Murphy / Palesa and Manko Kendall with an introducction by K. Limakatso Kendall -- From foutou to French fries: life on the edge of African and American cultures / Bosson Caroline Kouassiaman and Susan Frazier-Kouassi -- "Mommy, I just want to fit in!": an African girl's story / Joy Ekema-Agbaw and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw -- Childhood misconceptions: reflections of a biracial American (colored) girl / Wendy M. Thompson and Lisa B. Thompson -- Mah-Rukh Ali: profile of a Norwegian / Mah-Rukh Ali and Elisabeth Sandberg -- Fighting shame: a Somali single teen mother in Canada / Ayanna Anamoor and Merlinda Weinberg -- A tightrope made of sari silk: the delicate, perilous world of girlhood in India ; Preeti, Priya, Pratibha, Kamal, Lalitha, and Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis -- Afia's story: a guide to survival / Afia Begum, Najma Habib, and Rebecca Sultana -- A tryst missed: girlhood in Pakistan / Mithi, Pomi, Nasima, and Tahera Aftab -- Horizontal rain: road from Sarajevo / Ajla Hodzic -- Charley Lauren's story: growing up in the shadow of mental illness / Charley Lauren Ortman and Patricia E. Ortman.