Black Youth Aspirations

Author : Botshabelo Maja
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802620257
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Youth Aspirations written by Botshabelo Maja and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how to trigger the capacity to aspire among black youth. Examining the transition out of adulthood and imagined futures of black youth, Maja helps us understand how black youth aspirations might be raised, and how a better future for young people can be achieved.

Author : Botshabelo Maja
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802620273
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Youth Aspirations written by Botshabelo Maja and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how to trigger the capacity to aspire among black youth. Examining the transition out of adulthood and imagined futures of black youth, Maja helps us understand how black youth aspirations might be raised, and how a better future for young people can be achieved.

Author : Carl E. James
Publisher : Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889624689
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making it written by Carl E. James and published by Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black youth in 'big cities'.we think we know who they are, what they do, what they think about; Yet, the reality is more complex than it appears. Here, for the first time, is an in-depth, honest attempt to explore and comprehend the world of Black youth in a large urban environment. The city is Toronto, Canada. i could probably be any other major, urban center. This investigation illustrates that Black youth are not frustrated seekers of White Anglo middle class values: neither are they unaware of society's expectations of them. Their way of life constitutes a distinct and meaningful subculture based upon their minority status. More important, like all youth, Black youth holds high career aspirations and are optimistic that they will achieve their goals despite social conditions... (From the Preface)

Author : Richard B. Freeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226261824
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Youth Employment Crisis written by Richard B. Freeman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the earnings of young blacks have risen substantially relative to those of young whites, but their rates of joblessness have also risen to crisis levels. The papers in this volume, drawing on the results of a groundbreaking survey conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, analyze the history, causes, and features of this crisis. The findings they report and conclusions they reach revise accepted explanations of black youth unemployment. The contributors identify primary determinants on both the demand and supply sides of the market and provide new information on important aspects of the problem, such as drug use, crime, economic incentives, and attitudes among the unemployed. Their studies reveal that, contrary to popular assumptions, no single factor is the predominant cause of black youth employment problems. They show, among other significant factors, that where female employment is high, black youth employment is low; that even in areas where there are many jobs, black youths get relatively few of them; that the perceived risks and rewards of crime affect decisions to work or to engage in illegal activity; and that churchgoing and aspirations affect the success of black youths in finding employment. Altogether, these papers illuminate a broad range of economic and social factors which must be understood by policymakers before the black youth employment crisis can be successfully addressed.

Author : Richard ALLYN ENGLISH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS OF BLACK AND WHITE YOUTH. written by Richard ALLYN ENGLISH and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristen A. Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100067617X
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choice and Circumstance written by Kristen A. Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. Forty five percent of black women have at least one child by the time they are turn twenty compared to 19 percent of white women. Eight-six percent of the births to black teens occurred to unmarried mothers compared to 30 percent among whites. Research shows that teenage childbearing has negative medical, social, and economic consequences and that women who first gave birth as teenagers are more likely to raise their families in poverty. In Choice and Circumstance the authors explore tree factors underlying the racial differences in the incidence of early childbearing; information about sex, pregnancy and contraception; need for family planning and abortion services; and motivation for postponing parenthood, including aspirations for schooling, employment plans and desire for children within marriage. They consider which teens postpone sex and pregnancy and why, and whether the kinds of motivation necessary to prevent early pregnancy vary by race in the United Sates, perhaps explaining the race differences in early childbearing.

Author : Donivan J. Watley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bright Black Youth written by Donivan J. Watley and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth Knowledge Development Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cecile Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135187894
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Youth Matters written by Cecile Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do young black students respond, resist, and work to transform their school experience? How do young people adapt, survive, and then succeed in spite of their negative school experience? For an increasing number of marginalized black youth, the paths to social success can actually lie outside school walls. Black Youth Matters presents a compelling, empirical picture of black youth who creatively respond to permanent school exclusion. Structural approaches to social stratification often set the terms of discussion around isolated narratives of individual "success stories." In this book, the authors intervene with a new point of view by focusing instead on collectives of broader black communities. They both engage with and move beyond structural models of stratification and education, thereby affirming the enduring importance of individual and collective aspiration—an impulse that has not been exhausted for black youth even in the face of systematic, longstanding, and overwhelming inequality. Based on long-term ethnographic research with young people permanently excluded from school, Black Youth Matters examines the resourcefulness of young black people in overcoming the process of school failure to forge more positive futures for themselves. This book should be of interest to sociologists, educators, anthropologists, policy-makers, as well as community activists.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309085314
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attitudes, Aptitudes, and Aspirations of American Youth written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recruiting an all-volunteer military is a formidable task. To successfully enlist one eligible recruit, the Army must contact approximately 120 young people. The National Research Council explores the various factors that will determine whether the military can realistically expect to recruit an adequate fighting force-one that will meet its upcoming needs. It also assesses the military's expected manpower needs and projects the numbers of youth who are likely to be available over the next 20 years to meet these needs. With clearly written text and useful graphics, Attitudes, Aptitudes, and Aspirations of American Youth offers an overview of important issues for military recruiters, touching on a number of important topics including: sex and race, education and aptitude, physical and moral attributes, and military life and working conditions. In addition, the book looks at how a potential recruit would approach the decision to enlist, considering personal, family, and social values, and the options for other employment or college. Building on the need to increase young Americans' "propensity to enlist," this book offers useful recommendations for increasing educational opportunities while in the service and for developing advertising strategies that include concepts of patriotism and duty to country. Of primary value to military policymakers, recruitment officers, and analysts, Attitudes, Aptitudes, and Aspirations of American Youth will also interest social scientists and policy makers interested in youth trends.