2nd Edition

Pathways to Manhood Young Black Males Struggle for Identity

By Janet Mancini Billson Copyright 1996
367 Pages
by Routledge

367 Pages
by Routledge

734 Pages
by Routledge

In Pathways to Manhood, published in cloth as Strategic Styles: Coping in the Inner City, Janet Maricini Billson studies five young boys who grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts, during the Intense racial and political turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Using data from Harvard's Pathways to Identity project, she analyzes how healthy ego striving develops in the social and physical decay of an... Read more
1. Strategic Styles: Individual Responses to Social Reality 2. The Conformist: Keith Sutton 3. The Retreater: Ernie Hayes 4. The Tough Guy: Leroy Duncan 5. The Actor: Dave Cooper 6. The Cool Guy: Hank Nelson 7. Toward Manhood: Growth and Change in Styles over Time 8. Fostering Nondeviant Styles Against the Odds: Toward a Model of Intervention Strategies

Biography

Janet Mancini Billson