ABSTRACT
The failure of current policy to address important quality of life issues for urban youth remains a substantial barrier to civic participation, educational equity, and healthy adulthood. This volume brings together the work of leading urban youth scholars to highlight the detrimental impact of zero tolerance policies on young people’s educational experience and well being. Inspired by the conviction that urban youth have the right to more equitable educational and social resources and political representation, Beyond Resistance! offers new insights into how to increase the effectiveness of youth development and education programs, and how to create responsive youth policies at the local, state, and federal level.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|92 pages
Section I Reframing Youth Resistance: Building Theories of Youth Activism
chapter Chapter 4|22 pages
Sociopolitical Development: The Missing Link in Research and Policy on Adolescents
part II|77 pages
Section II Learning for Justice: Innovative Pedagogies for Justice in Schools
chapter Chapter 6|13 pages
From Hunger Strike to High School:Youth Development, Social Justice,and School Formation
chapter Chapter 7|18 pages
Youth-Initiated Research as a Tool for Advocacy and Change in Urban Schools
chapter Chapter 8|19 pages
“The Best of Both Worlds”: Youth Poetry as Social Critique and Form of Empowerment
part III|95 pages
Section III Street Corner Democracy:Youth, Civil Society, and Community Change
chapter Chapter 10|22 pages
From Hip-Hop to Humanization: Batey Urbano as a Space for Latino Youth Culture and Community Action
chapter Chapter 11|17 pages
Participation in Social Change: Shifting Adolescents' Developmental Pathways
chapter Chapter 13|17 pages
“Taking Their Own Power”: Urban Youth,Community-Based Youth Organizations, and Public Efficacy
chapter Chapter 14|19 pages
Taking Charge in Lake Wobegon: Youth, Social Justice, and Antiracist Organizing in the Twin Cities
part IV|81 pages
Section IV