| Canal Town Youth: Community Organization and the Development of Adolescent Identity Contributor(s): Hall, Julia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791448134 ISBN-13: 9780791448137 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Education | Parent Participation - Education | Secondary |
| Dewey: 373.18 |
| LCCN: 00026527 |
| Series: Suny Series, Power, Social Identity, and Education |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.74 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book considers how impoverished youth living in a deindustrialized urban neighborhood struggle to make sense of their lives in today's economy. Using participant observation and in-depth interviews with a group of eighteen white middle school girls and boys who walk each day from their multi-ethnic bilingual school to the historically white/Irish community center, the author discovered that the poor white youth are experiencing lives saturated with domestic violence and marked by a strong sense of racism. She also found that the youth position the community center as a space in which they feel a sense of safety, belonging, and importance. But upon closer examination, the community center can also be seen as a literal white "construction site," where the scaffolding that supports and sustains white supremacist ideology is produced and encouraged within children, within the neighborhood, across communities, and across generations. |