Not our kind of girl
Subtitle: unraveling the myths of Black teenage motherhood
By: Elaine Bell Kaplan ; with a foreword by Arlie Russell Hochschild.
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: African American teenage mothers -- Case studies; Teenage pregnancy -- United States -- Case studies
Description: Kaplan challenges the assumption, often reinforced by the popular media, that the African American community condones teen pregnancy, single parenting, and reliance on welfare. Especially telling are the feelings of frustration, anger, and disappointment expressed by the mothers and grandmothers Kaplan interviewed.

And in listening to teenage mothers discuss their problems, Kaplan hears firsthand of their misunderstandings regarding sex, their fraught relationships with men, and their difficulties with the educational system - all factors that bear heavily on their status as young parents.

Kaplan's own experience as an African American teenage mother adds a personal dimension to this book, and she offers substantial proposals for rethinking and reassessing the class factors, gender relations, and racism that influence Black teenagers to become mothers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index.

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