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Africana Youth and Social Justice Activism

 

 

Recommended Readings and Media:

• Kelley, R.D.G. 1996. “Introduction: Writing Black Working-Class History from Way, Way Below.” In Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class. New York: Free Press, p. 1-16. Not available in digital format. Available in JJ Library at Stacks (E 185.61 .K356 1994)
• Homan, M. 2004. “Putting Yourself in the Picture” In Promoting Community Change. Brooks/Cole: Belmont, CA., p. 84-101.
• Hooks, Bell. 1994. Teaching to Transgress:  Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, p. 1-59. ​Only available in physical format at JJ Library at Stacks (LC196 .H66 1994).
• Rubin, H., & Rubin, I. 2001. “Developing Capacity through Participatory Meetings.” In Community Organizing and Development (3rd ed). New York: Allyn & Bacon, p. 215-233.
• Nieto, S. (2005). Social justice in hard times: Celebrating the vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. Multicultural Perspectives, 7(1), 3-8.
• Tough, P. (2014, May 18). Am I Supposed to Be Here? Am I Good Enough? The New York Times Magazine
• Ginwright, S. & Cammarota, J. (2002). New terrain in youth development: The promise of a social justice approach. Social Justice, 29(4), 82-87.
• ​Podcast: The Breakdown with Shaun King

Weekly Class Readings / Media

• Black Millennials in America, Report from Black Youth Project. 

• Documenting the Contributions of Children and Teenagers to the Civil Rights Movement

• The Children’s March

Youth Activism

• Preparing for Democracy: How Community-Based Organizations Build Civic Engagement among Urban Youth

  Shiller, Jessica T., 2013

• The Renaissance of Student Activism.

  Wong, Alia, 2015.

• We’re not just students, we’re organizers

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• Civic Engagement Among Youth Exposed to Community Violence: Directions for Research and Practice *Open access article from the journal of youth development

• Top 10 Black Student Activism Stories of the Year 

• On Being Disrupted: Youth Work and Black Lives Matter  *Open access article from the Journal of Youth Development

• The Black Lives Matter Movement and Historically Black Colleges and Universities  *Open access article from GSE Perspectives on Urban Education

• Scaling Social Movements Through Social Media: The Case of Black Lives Matter  *Open access article from Social Media + Society

Capitalism

• Theory of capitalism. 
• What is capitalism?
• He’s A Businessman, Man: Jay Z’s Pursuit of Profit and Why We Don’t Trust Him. 
• Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s Billion Dollar Empire Not Consistent with Black Panther Party.

Oppression and the struggle for equity of rights

• Hope, Healing, and Care: Pushing the Boundaries of Civic Engagement for African American Youth; Retrieved from author’s (Shawn Ginwright) website.
• Racial justice through resistance: Important dimensions of youth development for African Americans; Library licensed resource retrieved from National Civic Review.

Structural Racism

• Critical Race Theory. In C. Kridel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (Vol. 1, pp. 152-155). Library licensed resource.
• “Toward a Structural Racism Framework.” Library licensed resource from Poverty and Race Research Action Council.

Historical perspectives: Universal Negro Improvement Association and the Young Negroes Co-operative League 

• Schuyler, George S.  1932. “The Young Negro Co-operative League.” The Crisis 41 (1, January): 456, 472.
• Garveyism in Idlewild, 1927-1936; Library licensed content retrieved from Journal of Black Studies
• Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association; retrieved from National Humanities Center. 
• Freedom’s stock: political consumerism, transnational blackness and the Black Star Line; Library licensed resource retrieved from Critical Sociology. 
• Marcus Garvey: Life & Lessons Introduction. Retrieved from UCLA Africa Studies Center.

Contemporary Youth Cooperative Economic Development

• Grayson, Jaynelle. 2012. “Food from the ‘Hood” in Chicken Soup for the African American Soul.  

• Toxic Soil Busters: Retrieved from YouTube: https://youtu.be/xKc-VlXzcmU

• The EPA Blog: Toxic Soil Busters: Who You Gonna Call?

• Food from the Hood Ten Years Later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPvuyX06Smo

Black Youth and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the Mid-Twentieth Century

• Azikiwe, Abayomi. 2010. “Youth Played Pivotal Role in Civil Rights, Black Power Movement.”  Workers World, February 11. 
• Timmons, G. (2016). Black History Month: How Black Youth Impacted the Civil Rights Movement.
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow | PBS | ep 4 of 4.

Black youth and resistance: The story of the Black Panthers

• Black Panther Party. 1966 + 1972. “Platform and Program.” 
• “Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.” pp. 445-449. In, Let Nobody Turn Us Around, edited by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009
• Joseph, Jamal. 2012. “Chapter 3: Finding the Panther Lair.” Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, pp. 27-50.
• Black Panthers Revisited | Op-Docs | The New York Times Watch:

Topic: Black youth and Resistance: The Social Programs of the Black Panthers

• Program for Survival, The Black Panther, Saturday March 24, 1973. 

• Bassett, M. (2016). Beyond Berets: The Black Panthers as Health Activists. 

• Mapping the Resistance: The Young Lord’s in El Barrio

• Ince, J., Rojas, F., & Davis, C. A. (2017). The social media response to Black Lives Matter: how Twitter users interact with Black Lives Matter through hashtag use. Ethnic and racial studies, 40(11), 1814-1830.

• Clayton, D. M. (2018). Black lives matter and the civil rights movement: A comparative analysis of two social movements in the United States. Journal of Black Studies, 49(5), 448-480.

• Movement for Black Lives. 2016. Platform. Movement 4 Black Lives Policy. 

• A Civil Rights Movement for the 21st Century: Black Lives Matter. Aspen Ideas Festival.

• Orfield, G. and Frankenberg, E. (2014). Brown at 60: Great Progress, The Civil Rights Project, 2014.
• STEM Education Gap Threatens American Economic Success Education, Black Press USA, 2014.
• The Truth About New York City’s Elite High Schools by Damon Hewitt, New York Times, 2017.

Black Feminism: Historical perspectives

• Lorde, Audre. 1984. “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference.” Paper delivered at the Copeland Colloquium, Amerst College, April 1980. 
• Lorde, A. (1982). SCRATCHING THE SURFACE: SOME NOTES ON BARRIERS TO WOMEN AND LOVING. The Black Scholar, 13(4/5), 20-24. Retrieved January 21, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/41068063 
  • Both also in “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”. Freedom CA: The Crossing Press.
• Black Panther Woman Speak on Feminism. Retrieved from YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSSYLu_yRhA

• These Women Were the Unsung Heroes of the Black Panther Party.  Retrieved from YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91mFsfJywXE    

Black Feminism: Contemporary Perspectives

• Bell Hooks, 2016, Commentary on Lemonade; Moving beyond pain

Black Masculinities

• Gordon, Edmund T. 1997. “Cultural Politics of Black Masculinity.” Transforming Anthropology Vol. 6, Nos.1 & 2, pp. 36-53.
• Documentary “The Mask You live In” , Use your John Jay login.

Race and Sports

• Brown, D.2017. They didn’t #TakeTheKnee: The Black Power protest salute that shook the world in 1968, The Washington Post, 2017.
• St. Felix, D. 2017. What Will Taking the Knee Mean Now? The New Yorker, 2017.