Black Youth Matters

Cecile Wright is Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research focus is on race, ethnicity, gender and social class, education, postcolonial theory and black feminist theory.Penny Standen is Professor in Health Psychology and Learning Disabilities at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research focus is on socially excluded and disadvantaged groups and in developing research methods that allow previously excluded people to gain a voice.Tina Patel is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Salford, UK. Her expertise is in black and minority ethnic communities, violence and the criminal justice system.

"Black Youth Matters is an important and timely volume. The authors work towards a new language around social mobility—an intellectual triumph. They give us a new angle of vision on the question of race and how it is lived today."—Greg Dimitriadis, Series Editor, Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, SUNY Buffalo"The authors do a fantastic job of giving [black] youth a voice, and they provide an excellent forum for a discussion about policies regarding school exclusion....Future studies should look to take the theoretical knowledge produced in this book and use it for creating hypotheses that can be tested and used to support the notion that excluding students from school has negative effects."—Journal of Youth and Adolescence

• Series Editor IntroductionIntroduction1. Theorising Youth Transitions: The Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Social Class2. Resistance, Resilience and Empowering Habitus: Connecting Identities, Ambitions and ‘Success’3. The role of Family and Kinship in Achieving ‘Success’4. Peers and Friendship Networks in ‘Success’ Making5. Collective Resistance: Community Networks and Social Capital in Success Making6. Youth, ‘Race’/Ethnicity and Social Mobility in Contemporary Society7. Understanding Black Youth, Success and Transitions in Society TodayNotesReferences