| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Community-based education in uncertain times -- The EE family : framing race, youth, and educational possibilities -- "We're not saving anybody" : refusing deficit narratives -- Expanding EE's footprint : navigating organizational change -- "The family is dead" : corporatizing afterschool -- "It was never ours" : race and the politics of control -- Conclusion : reclaiming community-based education in the neoliberal era |
| Summary |
"Approximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs, which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring, college preparation, political identity development, cultural and emotional support, and even a space to develop strategies and tools for organizing and activism. In Reclaiming Community, Bianca Baldridge tells the story of one such community-based program, Educational Excellence (EE), shining a light on both the invaluable role youth workers play in these spaces, and the precarious context in which such programs now exist. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, Baldridge persuasively argues that the story of EE is representative of a much larger and understudied phenomenon. With the spread of neoliberal ideology and its reliance on racism -- marked by individualism, market competition, and privatization -- these bastions of community support are losing the autonomy that has allowed them to embolden the minds of the youth they serve. Baldridge captures the stories of loss and resistance within this context of immense external political pressure, arguing powerfully for the damage caused when the same structural violence that Black youth experience in school, starts to occur in the places they go to escape it." -From publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2021) |
| Subject |
After-school programs -- United States -- Case studies
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Youth workers -- United States -- Case studies
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Social work with youth -- United States -- Case studies
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African American youth -- Education -- United States -- Case studies
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Minority youth -- Education -- United States -- Case studies
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Community and school -- United States -- Case studies
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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African American youth -- Education
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After-school programs
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Community and school
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Minority youth -- Education
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Social work with youth
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Youth workers
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781503607903 |
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1503607909 |
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