title: Urban Lit and Sexual Risk Behavior: A Survey of African-American Adolescent Girls.
abstract: Adolescents spend an inordinate amount of time engaged with media, which is highly sexualized. Sexualized material can be found in music, on television and the Internet, as well as in magazines and books. Adolescents engaged with media are often influenced by this sexualized content, leading them to engage in risky sexual behavior. Urban literature (urban lit) is extremely popular among African-American female adolescents due to its portrayal of urban life and hip-hop culture. The purpose of this survey was to ascertain the extent to which African-American adolescent females are reading urban literature and to document whether this genre of literature had an effect on their sexual risk behaviors.
authors.forename: Allyssa L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D055815:Young Adult; D001741:Black or African American