Coming of age in the other America
By: Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin
Contributors: Clampet-Lundquist, Susan, author; Edin, Kathryn, 1962- author
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780871544650
Subjects: Inner cities; Social mobility; Youth development; Social conditions; Urban youth; Poor youth; Urban Education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface:; title: "Baltimore city, you're breaking my heart" --; title: "Different privileges that different people inherit" : social reproduction and the transition to adulthood --; title: "More people that have stuff to live for here" : neighborhood change and intergenerational attainment --; title: "Following my passion" : how identity projects help youth beat the street and stay on track --; title: "You never know what's happening : this is Baltimore" : the vulnerability of youth without an identity project --; title: "It's kind of like crabs in a bucket" : how family and neighborhood disadvantage hinder the transition to adulthood --; title: "In and out before you know it" : the educational and occupational traps of expedited adulthood --; title: "If it can cause some kind of change" : policies to support identity projects and reduce educational and neighborhood inequality -- -- Appendix A:; title: Study history and methodology -- -- Appendix B:; title: MTOQ5 general description worksheet and MTOQ10 field note template.