Urban friendships and community youth practice / Melvin Delgado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delgado, Melvin, author.

Series:

Social justice and youth community practice series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Services for--United States.

Youth.

Youth--Services for.

Urban youth.

Social networks.

Social conditions.

United States.

Urban youth--United States--Social conditions.

Urban youth--Social networks--United States.

Youth development--United States.

Youth development.

Community organization--United States.

Community organization.

Physical Description:

xi, 301 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Urban Friendships and Community Youth Practice highlights the greater importance of friendships in circumstances where youth have been marginalized and have limited access to instrumental resources that restrict geographical mobility or curtail their movement to limited public spaces. Specifically, the book seeks to accomplish four goals: (1) provide a state of knowledge on the definition, role, and importance of friendships in general and specifically on urban youth of color (African-American, Asia and Latinos); (2) draw implications for community practice scholarship and practice; (3) illustrate how friendships can be a focus of a community capacity enhancement assets paradigm through the use of case illustrations; and (4) provide a series of recommendations for how urban friendships can be addressed in graduate level social work curriculum but with implications for other helping professions. As a whole, this text emphasizes a positive view or urban youth friendships as an alternative to the deficit perspective that permeates much of the scholarly literature on the topic. Urban Friendships and Community Youth Practice is a must-have for community practitioners focusing on social work, recreation, education, planning, and/or out-of-school programming. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I Conceptual Foundation

1 Setting the Context 3

Introduction 3

Ontological Approaches 4

Friendships and Animals 5

Academic Views of Friendships 6

Why a Focus on Friendships? 6

Historical Understanding of Friendships 9

Friends as Family? 10

Grounding the Evolution of the Study of Friendships 12

Urban Friendships as Community Assets 15

Critical Place Theory 19

Youth Community Social Work Practice 23

Community Practice and Friendships 26

Outstanding Books on Friendships 26

My Interest in Urban Youth Friendships 27

Book Goals 28

Definition of Youth and Age Range Covered in this Book 29

Book Outline 30

Conclusion 30

2 Urban Community Practice/Capacity Enhancement 32

Introduction 32

Urban Context 33

Key Values 38

Social Justice 39

Assets-First 41

Empowerment 42

Reliance on Indigenous Knowledge 44

Local Leadership Development 45

Participatory Democracy 46

Adultism 49

Community Practice and Capacity Enhancement 50

Positive Youth Development 51

Youth-Adult Relationships: The Potential of Mentoring 58

Conclusion 60

3 Friendships 62

Introduction 62

Definition of Friendship 63

Classification of Friendships Types 66

Classifying Types of Friendships 68

Life Satisfaction as a Backdrop to Friendship 69

Elements of Friendships 72

Benefits of Friendships 75

Friendships Gone Bad 78

Needs Met Through Friendship and Frameworks 81

Contextualization of Friendship 84

Friendship Groups 87

Demographic Influences 88

Key Factors in Friendships 90

Reciprocity 92

Intimacy 93

Self-Disclosure 94

Humor 95

Advice 96

Trust 96

Homophily 97

Availability/Access 99

Fun 99

Example of Gaps in Knowledge 100

Community Practice and Friendships: Community Capacity 101

Enhancement 101

Staff-Program Participant Friendships 105

Conclusion 106

4 Urban Youth of Color Friendships 108

Introduction 108

Anti-Urban Sentiments 111

Urban Youth as a Focus 114

Youth Living a Challenging Existence 117

Demographic Characteristics 123

Demographics and Youth of Color 124

Distribution 126

Future Projections 128

Gangs and Friendships 131

Conclusion 135

Section II Case Illustrations

5 Enhancement and Tapping of Friendships in Youth Development and Community-Based Interventions 139

Introduction 139

Case 1 Camp CAMERA (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota) 140

Overview 140

Brief Review of the Literature 141

Description of the Youth Group and Organizational Setting 141

How the Intervention Focused on Youth Friendship 142

Research/Evaluation Implications 143

Important Results and Lessons Learned 144

Case 2 "Photovoice in Overtown," Miami, Florida 145

Overview 145

Brief Review of the Literature 146

Description of the Youth Group and Organizational Setting 147

How the Intervention Focused on Youth Friendship 148

Research/Evaluation Implications 149

Important Results and Lessons Learned 149

Case 3 Digital Storytelling and Newcomer Youth in Georgia 151

Overview 151

Brief Review of the Literature 151

Description of the Youth Group and Organizational Setting 152

How the Intervention Focused on Youth Friendships 153

Research/Evaluation Implications 153

Important Results and Lessons Learned 154

Case 4 Youth Action, Midwestern City 154

Overview 154

Brief Review of the Literature 155

Description of the Youth Group and Organizational Setting 156

How the Intervention Focused on Youth Friendship 156

Research/Evaluation Implications 157

Important Results and Lessons Learned 158

Conclusion 159

6 Co-Production of Knowledge: Urban Youth of Color as Researchers of Friendships 160

Introduction 160

Community Participatory Research 161

Community-Based Research Challenges 164

Challenges and Limitations of Peer-Led Research 167

Critique of Friendship Research Approaches and Methods 168

Age-Specific 172

Race/Ethnicity 172

Geographic 173

Gender, Gender Identity, and LGBTQ 173

Intellectual/Physical Abilities 174

Acculturation Level of Newcomers 175

Socioeconomic Class 176

Promising Emerging Methodologies 177

Qualitative Interviewing 179

Ethnographic Approaches 180

Visual Methods 181

Surveys 183

Using Secondary Data 183

Use of the Internet 184

Youth Competencies and Interests 184

Conclusion 185

Section III Reflections

7 Cross-Cutting Themes from Field Examples and Scholarly Literature 189

Introduction 189

Recruitment of Youth Dyads 190

Friendships Outside of Programming 191

Data-Gathering on Peers and Friendships 191

Friendship as a Programming Topic 192

Connective Technology/Digital Youth 193

Future Research Agenda 193

Conclusion 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780190467098

0190467096

OCLC:

953175394