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Dangerous or Endangered?: Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America
Jennifer Tilton
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Description for Dangerous or Endangered?: Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America
Paperback. Explores the complex racial, class, and gender divides in contemporary American cities Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JFSP2; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
How do you tell the difference between a “good kid” and a “potential thug”? In Dangerous or Endangered?, Jennifer Tilton considers the ways in which children are increasingly viewed as dangerous and yet, simultaneously, as endangered and in need of protection by the state.
Tilton draws on three years of ethnographic research in Oakland, California, one of the nation’s most racially diverse cities, to examine how debates over the nature and needs of young people have fundamentally reshaped politics, transforming ideas of citizenship and the state in contemporary America. As parents and neighborhood activists have worked to save and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814783122
SKU
V9780814783122
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Ref
99-50
About Jennifer Tilton
Jennifer Tilton is an anthropologist and assistant professor of Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Redlands.
Reviews for Dangerous or Endangered?: Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America
This compelling book reveals a disturbing trend towards widening, racialized social class divisions among children growing up in U.S. cities. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in affluent and impoverished areas of Oakland, Tilton maps varied forms of community mobilization around children and youth. Beautifully observed, astutely analyzed, and directly relevant to current debates about ways of restoring a sense of the ... Read more