LEADER 03764nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910780829303321 005 20230725041521.0 010 $a0-8135-4670-2 010 $a1-282-24176-1 010 $a9786613812889 010 $a0-8135-4827-6 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813548272 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007919 035 $a(EBL)980034 035 $a(OCoLC)804665263 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344370 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11278887 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344370 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10307584 035 $a(PQKB)11531539 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC980034 035 $a(OCoLC)593295658 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8226 035 $a(DE-B1597)526300 035 $a(OCoLC)1121052916 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813548272 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL980034 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10367247 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL381288 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007919 100 $a20090219d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWe fight to win$b[electronic resource] $einequality and the politics of youth activism /$fHava Rachel Gordon 210 $aNew Brunswick, NJ $cRutgers University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 225 1 $aThe Rutgers series in childhood studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4669-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Development of Urban Teenage Activism -- $t2. Reading, Writing, and Radicalism -- $t3. Allies Within and Without -- $t4. Toward Youth Political Power in Oakland The Adult Gaze, Academic Achievement, and the Struggle for Political Legitimacy -- $t5. Toward Youth Political Power in Portland -- $t6. Gendering Political Power -- $tConclusion -- $tAPPENDIX: ENTERING THE WORLDS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM -- $tNOTES -- $tREFERENCES -- $tINDEX -- $tABOUT THE AUTHOR 330 $aIn an adult-dominated society, teenagers are often shut out of participation in politics. We Fight to Win offers a compelling account of young people's attempts to get involved in community politics, and documents the battles waged to form youth movements and create social change in schools and neighborhoods. Hava Rachel Gordon compares the struggles and successes of two very different youth movements: a mostly white, middle-class youth activist network in Portland, Oregon, and a working-class network of minority youth in Oakland, California. She examines how these young activists navigate schools, families, community organizations, and the mainstream media, and employ a variety of strategies to make their voices heard on some of today's most pressing issuesùwar, school funding, the environmental crisis, the prison industrial complex, standardized testing, corporate accountability, and educational reform. We Fight to Win is one of the first books to focus on adolescence and political action and deftly explore the ways that the politics of youth activism are structured by age inequality as well as race, class, and gender. 410 0$aRutgers series in childhood studies. 606 $aYouth$xPolitical activity 606 $aStudents$xPolitical activity 606 $aYouth movements 615 0$aYouth$xPolitical activity. 615 0$aStudents$xPolitical activity. 615 0$aYouth movements. 676 $a322.40835 700 $aGordon$b Hava Rachel$f1974-$01478963 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780829303321 996 $aWe fight to win$93694833 997 $aUNINA