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Jennifer Griffiths's At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative
Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era focuses on literary
representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to
intervene against the stereotypes that threaten to limit their
horizons. The authors of the analyzed works capture and convey the
complex experience of the generation of young people growing up in
the era after the civil rights movement. Through creative
experiments, they carefully consider what it means to be narrowed
within the scope of a sociological "problem," all while trying to
expand the perspective of creative liberation. In short, they
explore what it means to be deemed an "at risk" youth. This book
looks at crucial works beginning in 1968, ranging from Sapphire's
Push and The Kid, Walter Dean Myers's Monster, and Dael
Orlandersmith's The Gimmick, to Bill Gunn's Johnnas. Each text
offers unique representations of Black gifted children, whose
creative processes help them to navigate simultaneous
hypervisibility and invisibility as racialized subjects. The book
addresses the ways that adolescents experience the perilous "at
risk" label, which threatens to narrow adolescent existence at a
developmental moment that requires an orientation toward
possibility and a freedom to experiment. Ultimately, At Risk
considers the distinct possibilities and challenges of the
post-civil rights era, and how the period allows for a more honest,
multilayered, and forthright depiction of Black youth subjectivity
against the adultification that forecloses potential.
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