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A City Year. On the Streets and in the Neighborhoods with Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers.
Goldsmith, Suzanne – 1993
City Year is a community-service program based in Boston (Massachusetts) that has frequently been praised as a model for other service programs. In City Year, young people of all races and from differing backgrounds work together for 9 months on public service programs ranging from physical labor to tutoring. Volunteers receive a small stipend and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Services, Disadvantaged Youth, Group Dynamics
Collaborative Research and Social Change: Applied Anthropology in Action.
Stull, Donald D., Ed.; Schensul, Jean J., Ed. – 1987
Promoting social change is the goal of the seven community case studies reported in this book. Each study is a "natural experiment" that involved long-term research, close collaboration between researchers and the host community, and the application of research methods and findings to social change goals within the community. The following reports…
Descriptors: Action Research, Anthropology, Case Studies, Community Action
Repairing the Breach. Key Ways To Support Family Life, Reclaim Our Streets, and Rebuild Civil Society in America's Communities. Report of the National Task Force on African-American Men and Boys.
Austin, Bobby William, Ed. – 1996
This report of the National Task Force on African-American Men and Boys is the beginning of an approach to repair society's breaches and restore the streets to safety. The Task Force, headed by Andrew J. Young and established in 1994, conceived its mission as one of reclamation. The Task Force made 61 specific recommendations, and three general…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Programs, Crime Prevention, Disadvantaged Youth
Fighting Back: Neighborhood Antidrug Strategies.
Davis, Robert C.; Lurigio, Arthur J. – 1996
What is being done at a local level, in the neighborhood, to prevent and discourage small-time drug dealers is discussed. Partnerships of law enforcement and grassroots citizens' groups are working in many places to reduce the availability and impact of drugs in their communities. The book opens with a discussion of drug use and the urban…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Drug Abuse
Nurturing Young Black Males. Challenges to Agencies, Programs, and Social Policy.
Mincy, Ronald B., Ed. – 1994
This fundamentally encouraging book describes programs that offer young Black males from high-risk environments the same nurturing opportunities that other young people have to develop the competencies needed for adulthood. Chapters and their authors are (1) "Introduction" (Ronald B. Mincy); (2) "Adolescent Development"…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Afrocentrism, Black Youth, Child Development
African American Males. A Critical Link in the African American Family.
Jones, Dionne J., Ed. – 1994
African Americans are experiencing extreme stress in the United States, and African-American males appear to suffer the most. The chapters in this volume examine some of the issues confronting African-American men today. They include: (1) "Introduction" (Dionne J. Jones); (2) "Reaffirming Young African American Males: Mentoring and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier.
Root, Maria P. P., Ed. – 1996
The essays in this collection conduct a dialogue about race from a multiracial perspective. The biracial baby boom that began in the 1960s practically guarantees that anyone living in a large American city knows someone who is racially mixed. The contemporary presence of racially mixed people is unmatched in our country's history. These essays…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Community Programs, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences