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Contemporary youth activism : advancing social justice in the United States / Jerusha Conner and Sonia M. Rosen, editors.

Other author/creatorConner, Jerusha Osberg, editor.
Other author/creatorRosen, Sonia M., editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2016]
Descriptionvii, 433 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Opening youth essay / Beatrice Galdamez -- Youth leadership for social justice : past and present / Eric Braxton -- The emergence of a youth justice movement in the United States / Mark R. Warren and Luke Aubry Kupscznk -- Conceptualizing youth activists' leadership : a multidimensional framework / Sonia M. Rosen and Jerusha Conner -- Young, gifted, and black : black lives matter! / Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers -- Strategies for systematic change : youth community organizing to disrupt the school-to-prison nexus / Jesica Sihan Fernández, Ben Kirshner, and Deana G. Lewis -- Youth environmental stewardship and activism for the environmental commons / Erin Gallay, John Lupinacci, Carolina S. Sarmiento, Constance A. Flanagan, and Ethan Lowenstein -- Opening youth essay / Jamia Brown -- "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 -- Studying sociopolitical development through social network theory / Kira J. Baker-Doyle -- Shifting stereotypes and storylines : the personal and political impact of youth media / Barbara Ferman and Natalia Smirnov -- 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 -- The implications of youth activism for health and well-being / Parissa J. Ballard and Emily J. Ozer -- Working for change, learning from work : student empowerment and challenges in the movement to end campus gender violence / Alexandra Brodsky -- Opening youth essay / Janelle Astorga-Ramos -- Unlawful entry : civil disobedience and the undocumented youth movement / Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales -- "We have the power to make change" : the struggle of Asian immigrant youth against school violence / Mary Yee -- Youth taking the lead in education policy / Rachel Gunther -- 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 -- In defense of education justice : postsecondary institutional decision making for American Indian programs and services / Jesica Ann Solyom -- Injustice is not an investment : student activism, climate justice, and the fossil fuel divestment campaign.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Contemporary youth activism Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2016] 9781440842139
LCCN 2016019569
ISBN9781440842122 (alk. paper)
ISBN1440842124 (alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40026484822

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