We Fight To Win: Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) - Softcover

Gordon, Professor Hava Rachel

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9780813546704: We Fight To Win: Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0813546702 ISBN 13: 9780813546704
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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.

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About the Author

HAVA RACHAEL GORDON is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver.

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"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. Focusing on adolescence and political action and deftly exploring the ways that the politics of youth activism are structured by age inequality as well as race, class, and gender, Hava Rachel Gordon compares the struggles and successes of two movements: a mostly white, middle-class youth activist network in Portland, Oregon, and a working-class network of minority youth in Oakland, California.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0813546702
ISBN 13 
9780813546704
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248
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