Youth Perspectives on Violence and Injustice

by Daiute, Colette; Fine, Michelle; Frieze, Irene Hanson

• ISBN13: 9781405112338
• ISBN10: 1405112336
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Youth Perspectives on Violence and Injustice explores the myths and realities of adolescent's participation in violent behavior and the volence perpetrated against them because of ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. It explores the causes as well as the possible solutions for this growing issue in child development.

Author Biography

Colette Daiute is a Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Dr. Daiute was previously a professor at Harvard University and Columbia University Teachers College.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Youth Perspectives on Violence and Injustice	1	(14)
Colette Daiute
Michelle Fine
YOUTH PERSPECTIVES THROUGH HISTORY, CULTURE, AND COMMUNITY
Re-Thinking Illegality as a Violence Against, not by Mexican Immigrants, Children, and Youth	15	(18)
Jocelyn Solis
Vulnerability to Violence: A Contextually-Sensitive, Developmental Perspective on African American Adolescents	33	(18)
Margaret Beale Spencer
Davido Dupree
Michael Cunningham
Vinay Harpalani
Michele Munoz-Miller
Arab and Jewish Youth in Israel: Voicing National Injustice on Campus	51	(16)
Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz
Tracing the Historical Origins of Youth Delinquency & Violence: Myths & Realities About Black Culture	67	(16)
William E. Cross, Jr.
YOUTH CONFRONTING PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
Negotiating Violence Prevention	83	(20)
Colette Daiute
Rebecca Stern
Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger
Are Students Failing School or Are Schools Failing Students? Class Cutting in High School	103	(18)
R. Kirk Fallis
Susan Opotow
Black Youth Violence Has a Bad Rap	121	(20)
Jabari Mahiri
Erin Conner
``Anything Can Happen With Police Around'': Urban Youth Evaluate Strategies of Surveillance in Public Places	141	(18)
Michelle Fine
Nick Freudenberg
Yasser Payne
Tiffany Perkins
Kersha Smith
Katya Wanzer
TRANSFORMATIONS FROM YOUTH THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS
Sowing the Seeds of Violence in Heterosexual Relationships: Early Adolescents Narrate Compulsory Heterosexuality	159	(20)
Deborah L. Tolman
Renee Spencer
Myra Rosen-Reynoso
Michelle V. Porche
Producing Contradictory Masculine Subject Positions: Narratives of Threat, Homophobia and Bullying in 11--14 Year Old Boys	179	(18)
Ann Phoenix
Stephen Frosh
Rob Pattman
On (Not) ``Coloring in the Outline''	197	(16)
Linda C. Powell
2001 KURT LEWIN AWARD ADDRESS
The Timeliness of Time for Blacks and Whites: An Introduction of Professor James M. Jones, Winner of SPSSI's 2001 Lewin Award	213	(4)
Norman Miller
TRIOS: A Psychological Theory of the African Legacy in American Culture	217
James M. Jones