Author:
Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964- author.
Descriptionx, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: mapping the urban child -- Boys, movies, and city streets, or the dead end kids as modernists -- Shirley Temple as streetwalker: girls, streets, and encounters with men -- Neglect at home: rejecting mothers and middle class kids -- "The odds are against him": archives of unhappiness among black urban boys -- Helicopters and catastrophes: the failure to neglect and neglect as failure.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
