Contemporary youth activism
Subtitle: advancing social justice in the United States
By: Jerusha Conner and Sonia M. Rosen, editors
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9781440842122
Subjects: Youth; Social justice; Community leadership; Political activity; Community development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Opening youth essay  -- Beatrice Galdamez; title: Youth leadership for social justice : past and present  -- Eric Braxton; title: The emergence of a youth justice movement in the United States  -- Mark R. Warren and Luke Aubry Kupscznk; title: Conceptualizing youth activists' leadership : a multidimensional framework  -- Sonia M. Rosen and Jerusha Conner; title: Young, gifted, and black : black lives matter!  -- Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers; title: Strategies for systematic change : youth community organizing to disrupt the school-to-prison nexus  -- Jesica Sihan Fernández, Ben Kirshner, and Deana G. Lewis; title: Youth environmental stewardship and activism for the environmental commons  -- Erin Gallay, John Lupinacci, Carolina S. Sarmiento, Constance A. Flanagan, and Ethan Lowenstein; title: Opening youth essay  -- Jamia Brown; title: "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; title: Studying sociopolitical development through social network theory  -- Kira J. Baker-Doyle; title: Shifting stereotypes and storylines : the personal and political impact of youth media  -- Barbara Ferman and Natalia Smirnov; title: 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; title: The implications of youth activism for health and well-being  -- Parissa J. Ballard and Emily J. Ozer; title: Working for change, learning from work : student empowerment and challenges in the movement to end campus gender violence  -- Alexandra Brodsky; title: Opening youth essay  -- Janelle Astorga-Ramos; title: Unlawful entry : civil disobedience and the undocumented youth movement  -- Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales; title: "We have the power to make change" : the struggle of Asian immigrant youth against school violence  -- Mary Yee; title: Youth taking the lead in education policy  -- Rachel Gunther; title: 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; title: In defense of education justice : postsecondary institutional decision making for American Indian programs and services  -- Jesica Ann Solyom; title: Injustice is not an investment : student activism, climate justice, and the fossil fuel divestment campaign -- Joe Curnow and Allyson Gross.