Tribe Apart A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence

Name: Tribe Apart A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
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ISBN: 9780345435941

ISBN-10: 034543594X

ISBN-13: 9780345435941

Edition: N/A

Authors: Patricia Hersch

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For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston, Virginia, listening to their stories, observing their rituals, watching them fulfill their dreams and enact their tragedies. What she found was that America's teens have fashioned a fully defined culture that adults neither see nor imagine--a culture of unprecedented freedom and baffling complexity, a culture with rules but no structure, values but no clear morality, codes but no consistency. Is…

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/3/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 0.836



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Prologue: Alone


Introduction



Stepping Inside



On the Brink



Speaking Out/Acting Out



High School Is for Making Memories



The Negative Is Positive



Honor and Other Relative Things



The School Paper and a Whole New Adolescent World



Making Contact



Out of the Whirlwind and on to the Playing Field



A Circle of Friends: It's Not Peer Pressure, It's the Adolescent Way of Life



Graffiti, God, and Other Meaningful Things



Sex: Let's Get It Out of the Way, but Don't Look at Me Naked



Lacrosse and Other Challenges



Taking Care of Each Other and Other Grown-up Preoccupations



Moshing Is a Way to Belong



Shedding Light on Darkness: School Is an Uncomfortable Place to Learn



Making Sense



Rearrange Your Room When You Can't Arrange Yourself



The Dilemmas of a Fourteen-Year-Old Girl: Contradictions as a Way of Life



Creating My Own Space: The Long Cold Winter and Descent into Darkness



Broken Promises: Theirs and Ours



Doing High School the Old-Fashioned Way



It's My Prom, My Life



Resignation: Adolescence Is Sometimes a Life-or-Death Issue



The Great Unknown Lies Ahead: To the Wilderness or to College


Epilogue: A Warm Embrace


Postscript


Acknowledgments


Index