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Billson, Janet Mancini – 1996
The stories of five young black men growing up in the Roxbury area of Boston (Massachusetts) in the late 1960s and early 1970s illustrate the difficulties and coping required to reach adulthood in the city. The young men were part of the Pathways to Identity project of Harvard University, a longitudinal study that has, since 1966, interviewed 61…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Coping, Disadvantaged Youth