ABSTRACT
Many have written eloquently on this perverse realignment of the public sphere to satisfy and engorge elite interests; that is, to gentrify the public sphere. But few have interrogated how poor and working-class youth of color witness, analyze, critique, and mobilize in the face of this state realignment. This is the project we set out to explore in this paper: to interrogate how poor and working-class youth of color view both the distributive injustices that now orchestrate the public education system in California and the procedural injustices by which the state refuses to hear their voices of protest.
