Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling [electronic resource] : Vietnamese American Youth in a Postcolonial Context /
Lam, Kevin D.author.
Winner of the American Educational Studies Association 2016 Critics' Choice Book Award Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling examines the formation of Vietnamese American youth gangs in Southern California. Lam addresses the particularities of racism, violence, and schooling in an era of anti-youth legislation and frames gang members as post-colonial subjects, offering an alternative analysis toward humanization and decolonization.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Vietnamese and US Empire 2. Critical Theories of Racism and Asian American Identities: A Materialist Critique 3. "Theater of the Oppressed": Vietnamese and Asian American Youth Violence 4. "No One is Looking Into Our Shit!": Vietnamese American Youth Gang Narratives 5.Analysis and Synthesis 6.Toward a Pedagogy of the Dispossessed.
Winner of the American Educational Studies Association 2016 Critics' Choice Book Award Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling examines the formation of Vietnamese American youth gangs in Southern California. Lam addresses the particularities of racism, violence, and schooling in an era of anti-youth legislation and frames gang members as post-colonial subjects, offering an alternative analysis toward humanization and decolonization.
Ethnology-Asia.
Sociology.
Education.
Education-History.
Juvenile delinquents.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Asian Culture.
Sociology, general.
Education, general.
History of Education.
Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice.
Philosophy of Education.