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Citizen, Student, Soldier - Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream (Hardcover)
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Citizen, Student, Soldier - Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream (Hardcover)
Series: Social Transformations in American Anthropology
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Since the 1990s, Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC)
programs have experienced unprecedented expansion in American
public schools. The program and its proliferation in poor, urban
schools districts with large numbers of Latina/o and African
American students is not without controversy. Public support is
often based on the belief that the program provides much-needed
discipline for "at risk" youth. Meanwhile, critics of JROTC argue
that the program is a recruiting tool for the U.S. military and is
yet another example of an increasingly punitive climate that
disproportionately affect youth of color in American public
schools. Citizen, Student, Soldier intervenes in these debates,
providing critical ethnographic attention to understanding the
motivations, aspirations, and experiences of students who
participate in increasing numbers in JROTC programs. These students
have complex reasons for their participation, reasons that
challenge the reductive idea that they are either dangerous youths
who need discipline or victims being exploited by a predatory
program. Rather, their participation is informed by their marginal
economic position in the local political economy, as well as their
desire to be regarded as full citizens, both locally and
nationally. Citizenship is one of the central concerns guiding the
JROTC curriculum; this book explores ethnographically how students
understand and enact different visions of citizenship and grounds
these understandings in local and national political economic
contexts. It also highlights the ideological, social and cultural
conditions of Latina/o youth and their families who both
participate in and are enmeshed in vigorous debates about
citizenship, obligation, social opportunity, militarism and,
ultimately, the American Dream.
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