ABSTRACT
This collection of original research explores ways that educators can create participatory spaces that foster civic engagement, critical thinking, and authentic literacy practices for adolescent youth in urban contexts. Casting youth as vital social actors, contributors shed light on the ways in which urban youth develop a clearer sense of agency within the structural forces of racial segregation and economic development that would otherwise marginalize and silence their voices and begin to see familiar spaces with reimagined possibilities for socially just educational practices.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |86 pages
Understanding Youth Perceptions of Civic Engagement and Resistance
chapter |25 pages
Picturing New Notions of Civic Engagement in the U.S.
chapter |18 pages
Speaking Through Digital Storytelling
chapter |20 pages
“Truth, in the End, Is Different From What We Have Been Taught”
chapter |21 pages
Publicly Engaged Scholarship in Urban Communities
part |78 pages
Creating Safe, Creative Spaces for Youth Through Community Partnerships
chapter |20 pages
“We Want This to Be Owned by You”
chapter |21 pages
“It Help[ed] Me Think Outside the Box”
chapter |18 pages
Where Are They Now?
part |72 pages
Literacies as a Civil and Human Right