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We Fight To Win
Price: $23.95
Subtitle: Inequality
and the Politics of Youth Activism
Author:
Hava Rachel Gordon
Subject: Childhood Studies, Sociology
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4670-4
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4669-8
Pages:
248 pages
Publication Date: November 2009
Series:
Rutgers
Series in Childhood Studies
Praise for We Fight To Win
"Gordon successfully broadens our understanding of the
salience of age as it is ordered by race, class, and gender to the
formation of political consciousness, political action, civic
engagement and participation in social movements. She makes visible the
rich dimensions involved in understanding how youth come to participate
in the public sphere and in social movement, but also how forces
conspire to preclude such participation."—Amy L.
Best, author of Fast Car, Cool Rides:
The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars and Prom Night: Youth, Schools, and Popular
Culture
Description:
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 issues—war, 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.
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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