We fight to win : inequality and the politics of youth activism / Hava Rachel Gordon.
This book 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.--[book cover].
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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Table of Contents:
- The development of urban teenage activism: opportunities and challenges at the turn of the millennium
- Reading, writing, and radicalism: the politics of youth activism on school grounds
- Allies within and without: navigating the terrain of adult-dominated community politics
- Toward youth political power in Oakland: the adult gaze, academic achievement, and the struggle for political legitimacy
- Toward youth political power in Portland: the adult gaze, mainstream media, and the problems of social visibility
- Gendering political power: gender politics in youth activist networks.