Contemporary Youth Activism

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Jerusha Conner and Sonia M. Rosen
PART I THE LANDSCAPE OF CONTEMPORARY YOUTH ACTIVISM
Introduction
Opening Youth Essay
Beatrice Galdamez
2. Youth Leadership for Social Justice: Past and Present
Eric Braxton
3. The Emergence of a Youth Justice Movement in the United States
Mark R. Warren and Luke Aubry Kupscznk
4. Conceptualizing Youth Activists' Leadership: A Multidimensional Framework
Sonia M. Rosen and Jerusha Conner
5. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Lives Matter!
Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers
6. Strategies for Systemic Change: Youth Community Organizing to Disrupt the School-to-Prison Nexus
Jesica Siham Fernández, Ben Kirshner, and Deana G. Lewis
7. Youth Environmental Stewardship and Activism for the Environmental Commons
Erin Gallay, John Lupinacci, Carolina S. Sarmiento, Constance A. Flanagan, and Ethan Lowenstein
PART II HOW YOUTH ACTIVISM SUPPORTS YOUTH
Introduction
Opening Youth Essay
Jamia Brown
8. "It Shaped Who I Am as a Person": Youth Organizing and the Educational and Civic Trajectories of Low-Income Youth
John Rogers and Veronica Terriquez
9. Studying Sociopolitical Development through Social Network Theory
Kira J. Baker-Doyle
10. Shifting Stereotypes and Storylines: The Personal and Political Impact of Youth Media
Barbara Ferman and Natalia Smirnov
11. Telling Our Stories, Claiming Our Space, and Becoming Change-Makers: Lessons for the Field from Black Girls and Women Organizers
Julia Daniel and Michelle Renée Valladares
12. The Implications of Youth Activism for Health and Well-Being
Parissa J. Ballard and Emily J. Ozer
13. Working for Change, Learning from Work: Student Empowerment and Challenges in the Movement to End Campus Gender Violence
Alexandra Brodsky
PART III HOW YOUTH ACTIVISM STRENGTHENS SOCIETY
Introduction
Opening Youth Essay
Janelle Astorga-Ramos
14. Unlawful Entry: Civil Disobedience and the Undocumented Youth Movement
Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales
15. "We Have the Power to Make Change": The Struggle of Asian Immigrant Youth against School Violence
Mary Yee
16. Youth Taking the Lead in Education Policy
Rachel Gunther
17. Participatory Action Research as Youth Activism
Brett G. Stoudt, Caitlin Cahill, Darian X, Kimberly Belmonte, Selma Djokovic, Jose Lopez, Amanda Matles, Adilka Pimentel, María Elena Torre
18. In Defense of Education Justice: Postsecondary Institutional Decision Making for American Indian Programs and Services
Jessica Ann Solyom
19. Injustice Is Not an Investment: Student Activism, Climate Justice, and the Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign
Joe Curnow and Allyson Gross
PART IV CONCLUSION
20. Conclusion
Jerusha Conner and Sonia M. Rosen
Index
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