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Dangerous or Endangered? - Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America (Hardcover, New)
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Dangerous or Endangered? - Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America (Hardcover, New)
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How do you tell the difference between a "good kid" and a
"potential thug"? In Dangerous or Endangered?, Jennifer Tilton
considers the ways in which children are increasingly viewed as
dangerous and yet, simultaneously, as endangered and in need of
protection by the state. Tilton draws on three years of
ethnographic research in Oakland, California, one of the nation's
most racially diverse cities, to examine how debates over the
nature and needs of young people have fundamentally reshaped
politics, transforming ideas of citizenship and the state in
contemporary America. As parents and neighborhood activists have
worked to save and discipline young people, they have often
inadvertently reinforced privatized models of childhood and urban
space, clearing the streets of children, who are encouraged to stay
at home or in supervised after-school programs. Youth activists
protest these attempts, demanding a right to the city and expanded
rights of citizenship. Dangerous or Endangered? pays careful
attention to the intricate connections between fears of other
people's kids and fears for our own kids in order to explore the
complex racial, class, and gender divides in contemporary American
cities.
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