Constructing Social Reality

This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality and why this process is a particulary critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism inequality violence and poverty. Constructing Social Relaity: Self Portraits of poor Black Adolescents makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive linguistic and experiential persepctives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.