Contemporary Youth Activism (eBook, PDF)

Advancing Social Justice in the United States
Redaktion: Conner, Jerusha; Rosen, Sonia M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A cutting-edge study showcases the emergence of contemporary youth activism in the United States, its benefits to young people, its role in strengthening society, and its powerful social justice implications. At a time when youth are too often dismissed as either empowered consumers or disempowered deviants, it is vital to understand how these young people are pushing back, challenging such constructions, and advancing new possibilities for their institutions and themselves. This book examines the latest developments in the field of contemporary youth activism (CYA) and documents the myriad ways in which youth activists are effecting social change, even as they experience personal change. By taking public, political action on a range of intersecting issues, youth activists are shifting their own developmental pathways, shaping public policy, and shaking up traditional paradigms. Section one of the book offers a historical perspective on youth activism in the United States, followed by a discussion of contemporary examples of CYA for social justice. The second and third sections analyze the individual, institutional, and ideological effects of CYA, arguing that youth activism works to promote change at three levels: self, systems, and in the broader society. Readers will come away with a clearer understanding of the many ways in which today's youth activists are working to reimagine and remake American democracy, reawakening the promise of a multi-issue, progressive movement for social justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440842139
• Artikelnr.: 68183901

Autorenporträt

Jerusha Conner, PhD, is associate professor of education at Villanova University, Villanova, PA. Sonia M. Rosen, PhD, is assistant professor of education at Arcadia University, Philadelphia, PA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Jerusha Conner and Sonia M. Rosen PART I
THE LANDSCAPE OF CONTEMPORARY YOUTH ACTIVISM Introduction Opening Youth
Essay Beatrice Galdamez 2. Youth Leadership for Social Justice: Past and
Present Eric Braxton 3. The Emergence of a Youth Justice Movement in the
United States Mark R. Warren and Luke Aubry Kupscznk 4. Conceptualizing
Youth Activists' Leadership: A Multidimensional Framework Sonia M. Rosen
and Jerusha Conner 5. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Lives Matter!
Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers 6. Strategies for Systemic Change: Youth
Community Organizing to Disrupt the School-to-Prison Nexus Jesica Siham
Fernández, Ben Kirshner, and Deana G. Lewis 7. Youth Environmental
Stewardship and Activism for the Environmental Commons Erin Gallay, John
Lupinacci, Carolina S. Sarmiento, Constance A. Flanagan, and Ethan
Lowenstein PART II HOW YOUTH ACTIVISM SUPPORTS YOUTH Introduction Opening
Youth Essay Jamia Brown 8. "It Shaped Who I Am as a Person": Youth
Organizing and the Educational and Civic Trajectories of Low-Income Youth
John Rogers and Veronica Terriquez 9. Studying Sociopolitical Development
through Social Network Theory Kira J. Baker-Doyle 10. Shifting Stereotypes
and Storylines: The Personal and Political Impact of Youth Media Barbara
Ferman and Natalia Smirnov 11. Telling Our Stories, Claiming Our Space, and
Becoming Change-Makers: Lessons for the Field from Black Girls and Women
Organizers Julia Daniel and Michelle Renée Valladares 12. The Implications
of Youth Activism for Health and Well-Being Parissa J. Ballard and Emily J.
Ozer 13. Working for Change, Learning from Work: Student Empowerment and
Challenges in the Movement to End Campus Gender Violence Alexandra Brodsky
PART III HOW YOUTH ACTIVISM STRENGTHENS SOCIETY Introduction Opening Youth
Essay Janelle Astorga-Ramos 14. Unlawful Entry: Civil Disobedience and the
Undocumented Youth Movement Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales 15. "We Have the
Power to Make Change": The Struggle of Asian Immigrant Youth against School
Violence Mary Yee 16. Youth Taking the Lead in Education Policy Rachel
Gunther 17. Participatory Action Research as Youth Activism Brett G.
Stoudt, Caitlin Cahill, Darian X, Kimberly Belmonte, Selma Djokovic, Jose
Lopez, Amanda Matles, Adilka Pimentel, María Elena Torre 18. In Defense of
Education Justice: Postsecondary Institutional Decision Making for American
Indian Programs and Services Jessica Ann Solyom 19. Injustice Is Not an
Investment: Student Activism, Climate Justice, and the Fossil Fuel
Divestment Campaign Joe Curnow and Allyson Gross PART IV CONCLUSION 20.
Conclusion Jerusha Conner and Sonia M. Rosen Index About the Editors and
Contributors