| Description |
xvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: The Resilience Phenomenon in Ethnic Minority Adolescent Development / Edmund W. Gordon -- I. Economic Resources, Family Environment, and Adolescent Adjustment. 2. The Impact of Poverty and Low Socioeconomic Status on the Socioemotional Functioning of African-American Children and Adolescents: Mediating Effects / Vonnie C. McLoyd. 3. The Effects of Economic and Social Stressors on Parenting and Adolescent Adjustment in African-American Families / Ronald D. Taylor. 4. Why Are People Poor? Social Conditions and Adolescents' Interpretations of the Social Contract / Constance A. Flanagan, Patreese Ingram and Erika M. Gallay [et al.]. 5. The American Indian Child: Victims of the Culture of Poverty or Cultural Discontinuity? / Ardy Sixkiller Clarke -- II. Family and Peer Contexts and Adolescent Adjustment. 6. Parents and Peers in the Lives of African-American Adolescents: An Interactive Approach to the Study of Problem Behavior / Craig A. Mason, Ana Marie Cauce and Nancy Gonzales. 7. Educational and Occupational Aspirations and Expectations Among Parents of Middle School Students of Mexican Descent: Family Resources for Academic Development and Mathematics Learning / Ronald W. Henderson. 8. Attitudes Toward Sexuality and Sexual Behaviors of Asian-American Adolescents: Implications for Risk of HIV Infection / Connie Chan. 9. African-American Adolescents and Academic Achievement: Family and Peer Influences / Melvin N. Wilson, Deanna Y. Cooke and Edith G. Arrington -- III. Neighborhood and Schooling Contexts and Adolescent Adjustment. 10. Racial and Economic Segregation and Educational Outcomes: One Tale, Two Cities / William L. Yancey and Salvatore J. Saporito. 11. Developmental Considerations of Gender-Linked Attributes During Adolescence / Dena Phillips Swanson and Margaret Beale Spencer. 12. Determinants of Student Educational Expectations and Achievement: Race/Ethnicity and Gender Differences / Leo C. Rigsby, Judith C. Stull and Nancy Morse-Kelley -- Epilogue / Ronald D. Taylor and Margaret C. Wang |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Adolescent psychology -- United States.
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Minority families.
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Minority youth -- Family relationships -- United States.
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Minority youth -- Education -- United States.
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Minority youth -- United States -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Taylor, Ronald D., 1958-
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Wang, Margaret C.
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| LC no. |
96022744 |
| ISBN |
0805821554 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0805821562 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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