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Inner-City "Schoolboy" LifeUniversity of Pennsylvania Academically oriented young males, or "schoolboys," who reside in inner-city communities are often required to choose between their home and their school and are at risk of becoming alienated from either community, with far-reaching and dire consequences. The two cultures are often mutually antagonistic, and most students are severely challenged when trying to maintain a balance. The author uses relevant insights from his own childhood to approach his ongoing research with African American male students in a college preparatory magnet high school in Philadelphia.
Key Words: urban ethnography race relations innercity school status mobility
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 595, No. 1,
63-79 (2004) |
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