Critical Geographies of Youth

Gloria Howerton is an assistant professor in the department of geography and anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. Leanne Purdum is a visiting assistant professor in the law, politics, and society program at Drake University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionGloria Howerton and Leanne PurdumPart 1: Attempts to Categorize and Manage Youth1. Working and Schooling: A Critical Geography of Child Labor and Compulsory Education Laws in the Early Twentieth-Century United StatesMeghan Cope2. Protecting Youth: The Dismantling of Youth as a “Particular Social Group” in Contemporary Asylum LawKristina M. Campbell3. “Met with the Full Prosecutorial Powers”: Zero-Tolerance Family Separations, Advocacy, and the Exceptionalism of the Child Asylum SeekerLeanne Purdum4. Understanding New York’s Opt-Out Movement: How School Segregation Shaped the Nation’s Largest Resistance to Standardized TestingOlivia IldefonsoPart 2: Youth Resistance and Resilience5. The Coming of the Superpredators: Race, Policing, and Resistance to the Criminalization of YouthMarsha Weissman, Glenn Rodriguez, and Evan Weissman6. BreakOUT!: Queer and Trans of Color Activism in New OrleansKrista L. Benson7. Black Youth Resistance to Policies, Practices, and Dominant Narratives of the St. Louis Voluntary Desegregation PlanJerome E. Morris and Wanda F. McGowan8. The Tribunal of the Future: Youth, Responsibility, and Temporal Justice in US Climate Change LitigationMark OrtizContributorsIndex

This volume is one of the only of its kind, and its engagement with geography, the law, and policy—while reframing children and childhood—stands to make many contributions and interventions in the field."—Nicole Nguyen, author of A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public Schools