Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Construction Sites: An Introduction

Lois Weis

Michelle Fine

PART I SPACES FOR IDENTITY WORK

Writing on the Bias

Linda Brodkey

Learning to Speak Out in an Abstinence-Based Sex Education Group: Gender and Race Work in an Urban Magnet School

Lois Weis with

Doris Carbonell-Medina

Raising Resisters: The Role of Truth Telling in the Psychological Development of African American Girls

Janie Victoria Ward

Free Spaces Unbound: Families, Community, and Vietnamese High School Students' Identities

Craig Centrie

Sheltered ``Children'': The Self-Creation of a Safe Space by Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students

Richard Barry

Re-Writing/-Righting Lives: Voices of Pregnant and Parenting Teenagers in an Alternative School

Amira Proweller

Body Work on Ice: The Ironies of Femininity and Sport

Sarah K. Carney

The House That Race Built: Some Observations on the Use of the Word Nigga, Popular Culture, and Urban Adolescent Behavior

A. A. Akom

PART II SPACES FOR BORDER CROSSING

Before the Bleach Gets Us All

Michelle Fine

Bernadette Anand

Carlton Jordan

Dana Sherman

Aesthetic Safety Zones: Surveillance and Sanctuary in Poetry by Young Women

Jennifer McCormick

Teaching Locations

Nancy Barnes

Narrative Sites for Youths' Construction of Social Consciousness

Colette Daiute

Pitching, Dancing, and Budget Cuts

Constance Webster

PART III SPACES OF PRIVILEGE AND RESISTANCE

Waylaid

Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Disturbances of Difference: Lessons from a Boys' School

Michael C. Reichert

``La Cultura Cura'': Cultural Spaces for Generating Chicana Feminist Consciousness

Aida Hurtado

PART IV REIMAGINING PUBLIC SPACES

Lived Spaces, Shared Spaces, Public Spaces

Maxine Greene

About the Editors and Contributors

Index