Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities Book

	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	Makin' Homes: An Urban Girl Thing	15
2	Personal and Ethnic Identity, Values, and Self-Esteem among Black and Latino Adolescent Girls	35
3	Diversity in Girls' Experiences: Feeling Good about Who You Are	53
4	The Intersection of Gender, Race, Ethnicity in Identity Development of Caribbean American Teens	65
5	Raising Resisters: The Role of the Truth Telling in the Psychological Development of African American Girls	85
6	African American Mothers and Their Adolescent Daughters: Closeness, Conflict, and Control	100
7	Cultural Stories: Latina and Portuguese Daughters and Mothers	117
8	Are "Absent Fathers" Really Absent? Urban Adolescent Girls Speak Out about Their Fathers	132
9	African American Adolescent Mothers, Their Families, and Their Daughters: A Longitudinal Perspective over Twelve Years	149
10	Between Experiences of Betrayal and Desire: Close Friendships among Urban Adolescents	173
11	Why Not Marry Your Baby's Father? Answers from African American and Hispanic Adolescent Mothers	193
12	Supportive Ties between Nonparent Adults and Urban Adolescent Girls	213
13	From Mentor to Muse: Recasting the Role of Women in Relationship with Urban Adolescent Girls	226
14	Adolescent Girls' Sexuality: Debunking the Myth of The Urban Girl	255
15	Inner-City Girls of Color: Unmarried, Sexually Active Nonmothers	272
16	Contextual Factors of Sexual Risk-Taking in Urban African American Preadolescent Children	291
17	Health-Compromising Behaviors in Urban Early Adolescent Females: Ethnic and Socioeconomic Variations	309
18	Symptom Expression in Inner-City Latinas: Psychopathology or Help Seeking?	328
19	Acculturation and Depression among Latina Urban Girls	337
20	Sizing Up the Future: Predictors of African American Adolescent Females' Expectancies about Their Economic Fortunes and Family Life Courses	355
21	Career Development of Hispanic Adolescent Girls	380
	Index	399