Wayside Attractions: The Negotiation of Aspirations and Careers Among African-American Adolescent Males in an Urban Alternative School

by Bruce Martin

This text explores the way in which aspirations and careers get negotiated and are constructed among African-American adolescent males int he context of an urban alternative school. It also explores the issue of school and career failure through an ethnographic account of an alternative program.

Hardcover

First published November 18, 2003