Not Our Kind of Girl
Unravelling the Myths of Black Teenage Motherhood

For the African-American community the image of the teenage mother is especially troublesome. The author's interviews with the women themselves, and their mothers and grandmothers, provide a picture of their lives caught in the intersection of race, class and gender.

Kaplan's own experience as an African-American teenage mother adds a personal dimension to this book, and she offers substantial proposals for rethinking and reassessing the class factors, gender relations, and racism that influence black teenagers to become mothers.