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eBook details
- Title: Black Girls and Adolescents
- Author : Catherine Fisher Collins
- Release Date : January 03, 2015
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2781 KB
Description
This one-of-a kind book challenges the current thinking about black girls to show how America has failed them—and what can be done to make their lives better.
• Provides the first research work on this topic
• Covers health (physical, mental, and sexual), education, crime/criminal justice, and parenting as they affect black teen girls and adolescents
• Features contributors from a broad range of fields, including psychology, biology, criminal justice, sociology, spirituality, law, medicine, and popular culture
• Examines characteristics of at-risk girls and the lure of the "bad girl" image
• Clarifies what parents/mentors and others can do to help these girls and teens live happy, healthy, more rewarding lives