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Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change - New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth (Hardcover)
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Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change - New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Youth Studies
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Over the past decade, urban communities have experienced
unprecedented social, economic, and political transformation.
Globalization and de-industrialization have contributed to the
exodus of jobs, produced higher levels of inequality, and
consequent, furthered marginalization of the urban poor. Urban
youth have been particularly affected by this transformation. The
failure of urban school districts and the lack of jobs, health
services and effective prevention and intervention programs have
placed large numbers of low-income urban youth at risk. In the
absence of policies and institutions that respond to the needs of
youth, a climate of fear focused particularly on responding to
fears of youth crime has also shaped a national consciousness about
urban communities and the youth within them.
"Urban Youth and Community" "Change" brings together work by
leading scholars who study urban youth and who have a grounded
knowledge of the issues they face. A commitment to social justice
and equity is a unifying theme for this volume, and each of the
authors examines to varying degrees how such values and commitments
can be incorporated into public policy. The goal of this edited
volume is to draw on the knowledge and expertise of these scholars
from various academic disciplines and to share with policymakers
and the general public insights into the impact of punitive/zero
tolerance policies on young people's educational experience and
well being. These chapters also offer new ideas about how to
support youth placed at risk by deteriorating circumstances in
urban areas and offers recommendations on how to create more humane
and responsive youth policies at the local, state and federal
level.
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