Construction sites: excavating race, class, and gender among urban youth

Construction Sites: An Introduction / Lois Weis and Michelle Fine

Ch. 1. Writing on the Bias / Linda Brodkey

Ch. 2. Learning to Speak Out in an Abstinence-Based Sex Education Group: Gender and Race Work in an Urban Magnet School / Lois Weis and Doris Carbonell-Medina

Ch. 3. Raising Resisters: The Role of Truth Telling in the Psychological Development of African American Girls / Janie Victoria Ward

Ch. 4. Free Spaces Unbound: Families, Community, and Vietnamese High School Students' Identities / Craig Centrie

Ch. 5. Sheltered "Children": The Self-Creation of a Safe Space by Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students / Richard Barry

Ch. 6. Re-Writing/-Righting Lives: Voices of Pregnant and Parenting Teenagers in an Alternative School / Amira Proweller

Ch. 7. Body Work on Ice: The Ironies of Femininity and Sport / Sarah K. Carney

Ch. 8. House That Race Built: Some Observations on the Use of the Word Nigga, Popular Culture, and Urban Adolescent Behavior / A. A. Akom

Ch. 9. Before the Bleach Gets Us All / Michelle Fine, Bernadette Anand and Carlton Jordan / [et al.]

Ch. 10. Aesthetic Safety Zones: Surveillance and Sanctuary in Poetry by Young Women / Jennifer McCormick

Ch. 11. Teaching Locations / Nancy Barnes

Ch. 12. Narrative Sites for Youths' Construction of Social Consciousness / Colette Daiute

Ch. 13. Pitching, Dancing, and Budget Cuts / Constance Webster

Ch. 14. Waylaid / Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Ch. 15. Disturbances of Difference: Lessons from a Boys' School / Michael C. Reichert

Ch. 16. "La Cultura Cura": Cultural Spaces for Generating Chicana Feminist Consciousness / Aida Hurtado

Ch. 17. Lived Spaces, Shared Spaces, Public Spaces / Maxine Greene.