The Promise Of Youth Anti-citizenship Race And Revolt In Education

When inclusion into the fold of citizenship is conditioned by a social group’s conceit to ritual violence, humiliation, and exploitation, what can anti-citizenship offer us the promise of youth anti-citizenship argues that black youth and youth of color have been cast as anti-citizens, disenfranchised from the social, political, and economic mainstream of american life.Instead of asking youth to conform to a larger societal structure undergirded by racial capitalism and antiblackness, the volume’s contributors propose that the collective practice of anti-citizenship opens up a liberatory space for youth to challenge the social order. The chapters cover an array of topics, including black youth in the charter school experiment in post-katrina new orleans racial capitalism, the queering of ethnicity, and the 1980s salvadoran migration to south central los angeles the notion of decolonizing classrooms through palestinian liberation narratives and more.Through a range of methodological approaches and conceptual interventions, this collection illuminates how youth negotiate and exercise anti-citizenship as forms of either resistance or refusal in response to coercive patriotism, cultural imperialism, and predatory capitalism. Contributors: karlyn adams-wiggins, portland state u ariana brazier julio cammarota, u of arizona michael davis, u of wisconsin madison damaris c.Dunn, u of georgia diana gamez, u of california, irvine rachel f.Gómez, virginia commonwealth u luma hasan ga...

When inclusion into the fold of citizenship is conditioned by a social group’s conceit to ritual violence, humiliation, and exploitation, what can anti-citizenship offer us