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non-urban, lower socioeconomic neighborhoods

522 black girls between the ages of 14 and 18

Three times more likely to hit a teacher * Over 2.5 times more likely to get arrested * Twice as likely to have multiple sexual partners * 1.5 times more likely to get a sexually transmitted disease, use drugs, or drink alcohol.

Breakdance, breaking, b-boying or b-girling is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement among African American and Puerto Rican youths in Manhattan and the South Bronx of New York City during the early 1970s

A breakdancer, breaker, b-boy or b-girl refers to a person who practices breakdancing.

Breakdancing may have begun as a building, productive, and a constructive youth culture alternative to the violence of urban street gangs.[1] Today, breakdancing culture is a remarkable discipline somewhere between those of dancers and athletes. Since acceptance and involvement centers on dance skills, breakdancing culture is often free of the common race and gender boundaries of a subculture and has been accepted worldwide.