Literacy and advocacy in adolescent family, gang, school, and juvenile court communities
Subtitle: CRIP 4 life
By: Debbie Smith, Kathryn Whitmore.
Contributors: Whitmore, Kathryn F., 1959-
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Gang members -- United States -- Case studies; Juvenile delinquents -- United States -- Case studies; Mexican American youth -- Case studies; Teacher-student relationships -- United States -- Case studies; Gangs -- United States; Gang members -- Education -- United States; Literacy -- United States; Marginality, Social -- United States
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-197) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the Characters: Lil Boy Blue, Smurf, Juice, Lil Garfield, and Debbie; title: Family Community: Mi Familia; title: Gang Community: "West Up Cuzz"; title: School Community, Part One (I): "They Don't Want Us Here"; title: School Community, Part Two (II): "This Is Our School"; title: Juvenile Court Community: "In and Out of Juvie"; title: Images of Gangs in the Media and Research Literature; title: Living on the Boundaries of School: Advocacy and Research; title: Literacy in Communities of Success and Failure.