The promise of youth anti-citizenship : race and revolt in education / Kevin L. Clay and Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr., editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clay, Kevin L., 1988- editor.

Henry, Kevin Lawrence Jr., 1988- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American students--Social conditions.

African American students.

Minority students--United States--Social conditions.

Minority students.

Citizenship--United States.

Citizenship.

African American youth--Political activity.

African American youth.

Minority youth--Political activity--United States.

Minority youth.

Social justice and education--United States.

Social justice and education.

Identity politics--United States.

Identity politics.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2024]

Summary:

"When inclusion into the fold of citizenship is conditioned by a social group's conceit to ritual violence, humiliation, and exploitation, what can anti-citizenship offer us? The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship argues that Black youth and youth of color have been cast as anti-citizens, disenfranchised from the social, political, and economic mainstream of American life. Instead of asking youth to conform to a larger societal structure undergirded by racial capitalism and antiblackness, the volume's contributors propose that the collective practice of anti-citizenship opens up a liberatory space for youth to challenge the social order. The chapters cover an array of topics, including Black youth in the charter school experiment in post-Katrina New Orleans; racial capitalism, the queering of ethnicity, and the 1980s Salvadoran migration to South Central Los Angeles; the notion of decolonizing classrooms through Palestinian liberation narratives; and more. Through a range of methodological approaches and conceptual interventions, this collection illuminates how youth negotiate and exercise anti-citizenship as forms of either resistance or refusal in response to coercive patriotism, cultural imperialism, and predatory capitalism. Contributors: Karlyn Adams-Wiggins, Portland State U; Ariana Brazier; Julio Cammarota, U of Arizona; Michael Davis, U of Wisconsin-Madison; Damaris C. Dunn, U of Georgia; Diana Gamez, U of California, Irvine; Rachel F. Gómez, Virginia Commonwealth U; Luma Hasan; Gabriel Rodriguez, Iowa State U; Christopher R. Rogers, U of Pennsylvania; Damien M. Sojoyner, U of California, Irvine. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Predatory Inclusion in American Democracy: Youth and the Imperative of Anti-citizenship

Part I. And the Children Will Lead Them: Youth Fugitivity as Anti-citizenship Pedagogy

Chapter 1: Black Youth Refusing: Drapetomania and Neoliberal Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Chapter 2: Radicalizing Black Child Play, Conspiring in the Familiar Zones

Chapter 3: Radical Black Joy Is Citizenship

Part II. Seeing the Invisible: On Youth Anti-citizenship and the Struggle for the (Under)Commons

Chapter 4: Coloniality and Antiblack Racism in Black Adolescent Girls' Lived Experiences

Chapter 5: Queering the Citizen?: Exposing the Myths of Racial Capital Fantasies

Chapter 6: Black Youth Organizing for the Destruction of Schooling, the Citizen, and the World

Chapter 7: We Have Nothing Left to Prove, Yet a Whole New World to Accomplish

Part III. "Who Do You Love, Are You for Sure?" Rejecting Citizenship's Assimilations

Chapter 8: Reclaiming the "Mexican Problem": Chicano Youth, Agency, and the Rearticulation of Citizenship

Chapter 9: Unsettling the "Good Citizen": How Narratives of Palestinian Liberation Threatened a Liberal School

Chapter 10: Enacting Identities of Resistance in Suburban Schools: Latinx Youth and the Possibilities of Anti-citizenship

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-7132-3

OCLC:

1420640573