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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"youth of color"”.
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Reimagining as Resistance: Queer and Trans Youth of Color Envision Afterschool Spaces
… study seeks to understand how Queer and Trans youth of color engage resistance while envisioning afterschool programs. Specifically, it centers the unique insights of Queer and Trans youth of color by analyzing their visions for afterschool spaces. Data were drawn from 55 Queer and Trans youth …
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Libraries for social change: centering youth of color and/or LGBTQ youth in library practice
Critically aware libraries are capable of providing meaningful services to youth made most vulnerable to the state through surveillance, policing, and incarceration. This research traces how past policies and processes that established white, middle-class, and hetero-normative conduct and knowledge …
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A[n] examination of pre-college programs in mathematics and the sciences for youth of color
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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The civic development of youth of color in urban community-based youth programs: Understanding process and context
Community-based youth organizing programs (CBYOs) have been identified as particularly favorable contexts for youth civic engagement (Flanagan & Faison, 2001; Kirshner, 2004). Yet few studies have explored the developmental processes whereby youth become civically engaged through participation in …
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In Their Own Words: An Exploration of the Educational Experiences of Black, Indigenous Girls and Gender Expansive Youth of Color in Foster Care
… Indigenous, and girls and gender expansive youth of color in foster care is limited. Though, existing research in education, sociology, and psychology suggests that these individuals enter foster care at higher rates than their counterparts due to interpersonal and structural violence. In …
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Incorporating Community Cultural Wealth in a Community-Based Organization
… examined how Hack the Hood, a Bay Area non-profit organization, successfully works with low-income youth of color in an outside of school context using technological skills to empower them. Critical Race Theory, community cultural wealth, and the many studies on academic success provided a …
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The Effects Of The Dallas Independent School District Code Of Conduct On LGBTQ Young Adults Of Color
<p>This study explored the past lived experiences of LGBTQ young adults of color (ages 23-28) who were affected by the DISD Student Code of Conduct while attending high school. This study sought to discover the experiences, behaviors, and expectations that LGBTQ youth of color had in relation to …
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The Race for Privilege in Blackness: Transformative Leadership in Traversing Space in Search of Black Queer Cool
… American educational systems became systems of oppression faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth of color, intentionally blends artist in creative glance with researcher in systemic inquiry and knowledge gathering (Lawrence-Lightfoot & Hoffman-Davis, 1997; …
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The youth equity agents project : engaging critical literacies through youth participatory action research
… year-long study explores the critical literacies of the Youth Equity Agents, who were youth of color in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project and class at Community High School (CHS). The dual purposes of this study were to partner with youth investigating personally important …
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Countering Youth Incarceration: Community Strategies in New Orleans and Cape Town
… remedial strategies addressing high youth incarceration and recidivism rates in the cities of Cape Town and New Orleans. Working within a theoretical framework of structural violence, I argue that the dominant discourse of Criminal Justice is based in punitive and retributive …
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How the Labeling of “Acting White” Manifests itself Among People of Color: The Life Experiences of Cultural Straddlers
<p>The purpose of Study 1 (quantitative) and Study 2 (qualitative) was to understand whether the acting white label can either positively or negatively affect a cultural straddler’s decision to assume certain lifestyles. The quantitative study examined how sociocultural norms, the acting white …
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Supporting disaster impacted youth : evaluation of a universally delivered online mindfulness intervention
There is an increase in youth-reported traumatic stress, youth behavioral health problems, and an upward trend in the prevalence and severity of large-scale disasters within the US. Youth are especially vulnerable to adverse behavioral health problems following a disaster. Many young people do not …
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Youth with Juvenile Justice Contact: Special Considerations in Measurement
… The risk factors that plague the likelihood of justice-involvement are numerous and inter-connected. Early experiences of trauma and adversity, limited familial and financial capital, and challenges with mental health all contribute to increased likelihood of youth contact with juvenile …
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Knowledge -the Fifth Element of Hip Hop Music: Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth Engagement of Hip Hop as Critically Rac(ed) Education Discourse
… among Mexican and Puerto Rican youth in Chicago, schooling, and hip hop music as critical pedagogy. Using Critical Race and Latino Critical Race theories, the author conducted a multi-methodological qualitative study with twenty Mexican and Puerto Rican youth in Chicago analyzing …
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Understanding the Service Needs of Gang-Involved Youth: Social Identity and Ecological Influences on Health Decision-Making
Gang-involved youth experience multiple forms of marginalization and are members of communities experiencing significant health disparities (e.g., youth of color, poor). Yet, research and policy narratives routinely center delinquency, violence, and legal system intervention with limited attention …
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Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work and the Blame Game
… navigate the contradictory social position of having little power over their work and considerable power over their students. This qualitative interpretive study begins from a perspective that is attentive to and critical of both (a) neoliberal approaches to education, particularly the …
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Healing centered organizing : what side are you on?
Many youth today grew up with narratives about reaching for the American Dream and working hard to reap the benefits. Yet over 2 million people have been deported under President Obama's administration and over 2 million people live encaged in the U.S., both world records. Millions of youth, …
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Identity Congruence: Associations with Ethnic-Racial Centrality and Critical Agency
… are you from?” What seems like a simple question often carries deep assumptions about Black and Latinx youth. For youth of color, this question can signal that their identities are being scrutinized or misrecognized. Such moments are embedded in systems that reinforce racial categories and shape …
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Do Objective Measures reduce the Disproportionate Rates of Minority Youth Placed in Detention: Validation of a Risk Assessment Instrument?
The overrepresentation of youth of color in the juvenile justice system, often referred to as disproportionate minority contact (DMC) can be found at many stages of the juvenile justice continuum. Further, research has shown that overrepresentation is not necessarily related to higher rates of …
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Mapping the Socio-Spatial Educational Trajectories of Justice-Impacted Latina/o/x Students
… data have demonstrated the over-representation of youth of color in the criminal justice system and their disproportionate encounters with severe disciplinary and surveillance strategies at school and in their communities; however, our understanding of the educational trajectories of …
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