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Everday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers

What doe it mean to be a teenager in an American city? In Everday Courage, Way, a developmental psychologist, looks beyond the sterotype to reveal how the personal worldviews of urban poor and working-cla adolescents develop overtime. In the process, she challenges much conventional widom about urban youth and about adolecents more generally. Sheintroduce u to Malcolm, a senitive and proud young man full of contradicitoons. We follow him as he makes the honor roll, becomes a teenage father and falls into depresion when his younger sister is dying of cancer. We meet Eva, alienated from her mother and come to rely on her best friends for upport. We watch her grow as a ball player and a poet. She worked hard for her scholarship to the college she wants to go too. Throughout the interviews in the book,Way finds a cross-section of youth who want to make positive changes in their lives and communities while truggling with concern about betrayal, trut, racism, violence and death. In this book their voice can at last be heard. Each adolescent wants most of all to " be somebody" to have a say.
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Niobe Way is a Professor of Applied Psychology in Department of Applied Psychology at New York University. She is also the Director of the Developmental Psychology program and the co-Director of the Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education at NYU. Niobe is the president elect for the Human Development and Psychology and wa an NMH potdoctoral fellow in the pychology department atYale Univerity. Her research focuse on the interection of culture, context, and human development with a particular focu on the social and emotional development of adolecent from low-income families. Niobe Way i the author of numerou book and journal articles.

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