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Coming of age in America the transition to adulthood in the twenty-first century / [electronic resource] : edited by Mary C. Waters ... [et al.]. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011. - x, 242 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Mary C. Waters, Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas -- Straight from the heartland : coming of age in Ellis, Iowa / Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas -- Transitions to adulthood in the land of Lake Woebegon / Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Douglas Hartmann and Jeylan Mortimer -- If you can make it there-- : the transition to adulthood in New York City / Jennifer Holdaway -- Coming of age in America's finest city : transitions to adulthood among children of immigrants in San Diego / Linda Borgen and Ruben Rumbaut -- Becoming adult : meanings and markers for young Americans / Richard A. Settersten, Jr. -- Conclusion / Maria J. Kefalas and Patrick J. Carr.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Adolescence--History--United States--21st century.
Parent and teenager--United States.
Ethnology--United States.
Social classes--United States.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ796 / .C656 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.2350973/09051