Contemporary Youth Activism

Jerusha Conner, PhD, is associate professor of education at Villanova University, Villanova, PA.Sonia M. Rosen, PhD, is assistant professor of education at Arcadia University, Philadelphia, PA.

• Acknowledgments1. IntroductionJerusha Conner and Sonia M. RosenPART I THE LANDSCAPE OF CONTEMPORARY YOUTH ACTIVISMIntroductionOpening Youth EssayBeatrice Galdamez2. Youth Leadership for Social Justice: Past and PresentEric Braxton3. The Emergence of a Youth Justice Movement in the United StatesMark R. Warren and Luke Aubry Kupscznk4. Conceptualizing Youth Activists' Leadership: A Multidimensional FrameworkSonia M. Rosen and Jerusha Conner5. Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Lives Matter!Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers6. Strategies for Systemic Change: Youth Community Organizing to Disrupt the School-to-Prison NexusJesica Siham Fernández, Ben Kirshner, and Deana G. Lewis7. Youth Environmental Stewardship and Activism for the Environmental CommonsErin Gallay, John Lupinacci, Carolina S. Sarmiento, Constance A. Flanagan, and Ethan LowensteinPART II HOW YOUTH ACTIVISM SUPPORTS YOUTHIntroductionOpening Youth EssayJamia Brown8. "It Shaped Who I Am as a Person": Youth Organizing and the Educational and Civic Trajectories of Low-Income YouthJohn Rogers and Veronica Terriquez9. Studying Sociopolitical Development through Social Network TheoryKira J. Baker-Doyle10. Shifting Stereotypes and Storylines: The Personal and Political Impact of Youth MediaBarbara Ferman and Natalia Smirnov11. Telling Our Stories, Claiming Our Space, and Becoming Change-Makers: Lessons for the Field from Black Girls and Women OrganizersJulia Daniel and Michelle Renée Valladares12. The Implications of Youth Activism for Health and Well-BeingParissa J. Ballard and Emily J. Ozer13. Working for Change, Learning from Work: Student Empowerment and Challenges in the Movement to End Campus Gender ViolenceAlexandra BrodskyPART III HOW YOUTH ACTIVISM STRENGTHENS SOCIETYIntroductionOpening Youth EssayJanelle Astorga-Ramos14. Unlawful Entry: Civil Disobedience and the Undocumented Youth MovementGenevieve Negrón-Gonzales15. "We Have the Power to Make Change": The Struggle of Asian Immigrant Youth against School ViolenceMary Yee16. Youth Taking the Lead in Education PolicyRachel Gunther17. Participatory Action Research as Youth ActivismBrett G. Stoudt, Caitlin Cahill, Darian X, Kimberly Belmonte, Selma Djokovic, Jose Lopez, Amanda Matles, Adilka Pimentel, María Elena Torre18. In Defense of Education Justice: Postsecondary Institutional Decision Making for American Indian Programs and ServicesJessica Ann Solyom19. Injustice Is Not an Investment: Student Activism, Climate Justice, and the Fossil Fuel Divestment CampaignJoe Curnow and Allyson GrossPART IV CONCLUSION20. ConclusionJerusha Conner and Sonia M. RosenIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors

The editors write useful introductions to each of these three sections, as well as a lengthy general introduction and conclusion . . . heavy on descriptions of political events, providing exemplars of activist organizational strategies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.