We Live in the Shadow: Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories Through Photographs - Couverture rigide

Kaplan, Elaine Bell

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ISBN 10 : 1439907897 ISBN 13 : 9781439907894

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2013

Synopsis

Book by Kaplan Elaine Bell

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Looking at their photo of railroad tracks, a group of pre-teen 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 the poignant "We Live in the Shadow": Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories through Photographs. In Elaine Bell Kaplan's perceptive book, 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. We follow them into their schools, and we hear about their creative coping strategies. While these kids see South Central as dangerous, they also see themselves as confident enough not to let the inner-city take them down. They refuse to be labelled as "ghetto thugs," as outsiders sometimes do. These outsiders include police, teachers, and other groups representing the institutional voices governing their daily lives. The kids in "We Live in the Shadow": Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories through Photographs have developed a multi-layered view of society. This impressive book gives voice to their resilience. Elaine Bell Kaplan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California, and author of Not Our Kind of Girl: Unraveling the Myths of Black Teenage Motherhood.

Revue de presse :

"Kaplan gives a group of preteens from South Central L.A. the chance to document their lives in this moving work. After telling them to 'take pictures of anything you want to show me about your experiences,' Kaplan uses the results to assemble a well-researched narrative examining how the subjects 'experience and react to the social problems associated with South Central,' their reflections on living there, and how they deal with daily challenges, including gang violence and drug warfare... [Kaplan] interweaves her subjects' stories and pieces from their photo essays with her research, reflections, and observations, confronting issues of class, race, and identity. Even casual anecdotes point to larger problems - teachers who don't care and schools that don't work." --Publishers Weekly , April 2013

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1439907897
• ISBN 13: 9781439907894
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208