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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.
Contents
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
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