How do young black students respond, resist, and work to
transform their school experience? How do young people adapt,
survive, and then succeed in spite of their negative school
experience? For an increasing number of marginalized black youth,
the paths to social success can actually lie outside school
walls.
Black Youth Matters presents a compelling, empirical picture of
black youth who creatively respond to permanent school exclusion.
Structural approaches to social stratification often set the terms
of discussion around isolated narratives of individual "success
stories." In this book, the authors intervene with a new point of
view by focusing instead on collectives of broader black
communities. They both engage with and move beyond structural
models of stratification and education, thereby affirming the
enduring importance of individual and collective aspiration-an
impulse that has not been exhausted for black youth even in the
face of systematic, longstanding, and overwhelming inequality.
Based on long-term ethnographic research with young people
permanently excluded from school, Black Youth Matters examines the
resourcefulness of young black people in overcoming the process of
school failure to forge more positive futures for themselves. This
book should be of interest to sociologists, educators,
anthropologists, policy-makers, as well as community activists.
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