"Mitigating instigation": Cultural phenomenological influences of anger and fighting among "big-boned" and "baby-faced" African American youth

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 473-485

  Stevenson, Howard C ^a   Herrero Taylor, Teri ^a   Cameron, Rick ^a   Davis, Gwendolyn Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Anger; Culture; Ecology; Intervention; Perceived physical maturity; Phenomenology; Prevention; Racial socialization; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036389041     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020267221683     Document Type: Article

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