Urban Girls Revisited JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Strangers Or perhaps it’s the other

Or perhaps it’s the other way around: do the owners all look like their dogs

and a woman who has charted her own creative and political path for more than ninety years

There’s no way I’m going to have one of those things in my teeth

given by the American Sociological Association

Although appeals to human nature have historically been made by both radicals and conservatives

Urban Girls Revisited JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Strangers Or perhaps it’s the otherUrban Girls, published in 1996, was one of the first volumes to showcase the lives of girls growing up in contexts of urban poverty and sometimes racism and violence. It spoke directly to young women who, often for the first time, were seeing their own stories and those of their friends explained in the materials they were asked to read. The volume has helped to shape the way in which we study girls and understand their development over the past