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Author DeLuca, Stefanie, author

Title Coming of age in the other America / Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin
Published New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2016]

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Contents Preface: "Baltimore city, you're breaking my heart" -- "Different privileges that different people inherit" : social reproduction and the transition to adulthood -- "More people that have stuff to live for here" : neighborhood change and intergenerational attainment -- "Following my passion" : how identity projects help youth beat the street and stay on track -- "You never know what's happening : this is Baltimore" : the vulnerability of youth without an identity project -- "It's kind of like crabs in a bucket" : how family and neighborhood disadvantage hinder the transition to adulthood -- "In and out before you know it" : the educational and occupational traps of expedited adulthood -- "If it can cause some kind of change" : policies to support identity projects and reduce educational and neighborhood inequality -- Appendix A: Study history and methodology -- Appendix B: MTOQ5 general description worksheet and MTOQ10 field note template
Summary "Coming of Age in the Other America illuminates the profound effects of neighborhoods on impoverished families. The authors conducted in-depth interviews and fieldwork with 150 young adults, and found that those who had been able to move to better neighborhoods--either as part of the Moving to Opportunity program or by other means--achieved much higher rates of high school completion and college enrollment than their parents. About half the youth surveyed reported being motivated by an "identity project"--Or a strong passion such as music, art, or a dream job--to finish school and build a career. Yet the authors also found troubling evidence that some of the most promising young adults often fell short of their goals and remained mired in poverty. Factors such as neighborhood violence and family trauma put these youth on expedited paths to adulthood, forcing them to shorten or end their schooling and find jobs much earlier than their middle-class counterparts. Weak labor markets and subpar postsecondary educational institutions, including exploitative for-profit trade schools and under-funded community colleges, saddle some young adults with debt and trap them in low-wage jobs. A third of the youth surveyed--particularly those who had not developed identity projects--were neither employed nor in school. To address these barriers to success, the authors recommend initiatives that help transform poor neighborhoods and provide institutional support for the identity projects that motivate youth to stay in school. They propose increased regulation of for-profit schools and increased college resources for low-income high school students. Coming of Age in the Other America presents a sensitive, nuanced account of how a generation of ambitious but underprivileged young Baltimoreans has struggled to succeed. It both challenges long-held myths about inner-city youth and shows how the process of "social reproduction"--where children end up stuck in the same place as their parents--is far from inevitable."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Urban youth -- United States -- Social conditions
Poor youth -- United States -- Social conditions
Youth development -- United States
Education, Urban -- United States
Inner cities -- United States
Social mobility -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
Education, Urban
Inner cities
Poor youth -- Social conditions
Social mobility
Urban youth -- Social conditions
Youth development
Familie
Unterprivilegierter
Jugend
Schwarze
Soziale Ungleichheit
Soziale Mobilität
Rassismus
United States
USA
Baltimore, Md.
Form Electronic book
Author Clampet-Lundquist, Susan, author
Edin, Kathryn, 1962- author.
LC no. 2016004557
ISBN 9781610448581
1610448588