We fight to win : inequality and the politics of youth activism /
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| Author / Creator: | Gordon, Hava Rachel, 1974- author. |
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| Imprint: | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Rutgers series in childhood studies Rutgers series in childhood studies. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11206409 |
| Summary: | In an adult-dominated society, teenagers are often shut out of participation in politics. We Fight to Win offers a compelling account of young people's attempts to get involved in community politics, and documents the battles waged to form youth movements and create social change in schools and neighborhoods. <p>Hava Rachel Gordon compares the struggles and successes of two very different youth movements: a mostly white, middle-class youth activist network in Portland, Oregon, and a working-class network of minority youth in Oakland, California. She examines how these young activists navigate schools, families, community organizations, and the mainstream media, and employ a variety of strategies to make their voices heard on some of today's most pressing issuesùwar, school funding, the environmental crisis, the prison industrial complex, standardized testing, corporate accountability, and educational reform. We Fight to Win is one of the first books to focus on adolescence and political action and deftly explore the ways that the politics of youth activism are structured by age inequality as well as race, class, and gender.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813548272 0813548276 9780813546698 0813546699 9780813546704 0813546702 |