Running for their lives
Subtitle: girls, cultural identity, and stories of survival
By: edited by Sherrie A. Inness
Contributors: Inness, Sherrie A
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Girls -- Social conditions -- Case studies; Minority youth -- Social conditions -- Case studies; Racism -- Case studies; Marginality, Social -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Girl problems / Sherrie A. Inness; title: Coming to America: not the movie by Eddie Murphy / Palesa and Manko Kendall with an introducction by K. Limakatso Kendall; title: From foutou to French fries: life on the edge of African and American cultures / Bosson Caroline Kouassiaman and Susan Frazier-Kouassi; title: "Mommy, I just want to fit in!": an African girl's story / Joy Ekema-Agbaw and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw; title: Childhood misconceptions: reflections of a biracial American (colored) girl / Wendy M. Thompson and Lisa B. Thompson; title: Mah-Rukh Ali: profile of a Norwegian / Mah-Rukh Ali and Elisabeth Sandberg; title: Fighting shame: a Somali single teen mother in Canada / Ayanna Anamoor and Merlinda Weinberg; title: A tightrope made of sari silk: the delicate, perilous world of girlhood in India ; Preeti, Priya, Pratibha, Kamal, Lalitha, and Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis; title: Afia's story: a guide to survival / Afia Begum, Najma Habib, and Rebecca Sultana; title: A tryst missed: girlhood in Pakistan / Mithi, Pomi, Nasima, and Tahera Aftab; title: Horizontal rain: road from Sarajevo / Ajla Hodzic; title: Charley Lauren's story: growing up in the shadow of mental illness / Charley Lauren Ortman and Patricia E. Ortman