Kids with cameras -- History and transformation of South Central -- Kids' school stories -- Kids' neighborhood stories -- Kids' family stories
Summary
Looking at their photo of railroad tracks, a group of preteen students in South Central Los Angeles see either "a way out of the ghetto," or a "dirty, bad environment." Such are the impressions expressed in this book, where at-risk youth were given five-dollar cameras to tell stories about their world. Their photos and stories show us their response to negative inner-city teen images