Hava Rachel Gordon, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver, USA. She is the author of This Is Our School! Race and Community Resistance to School Reform (2021), which won the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association.

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• Preface1. Background and HistoryDefining Youth-Inventing America, Inventing Youth-Teenagers, Stereotypes, and Social Inequality-College Student Activism-High School Student ActivismDefining Activism-Civic and Movement Organizations-School-based Activism-Internet-based Activism-Conservative and Right-Wing Youth Activism: Gangs, Subcultures, or Movements?Youth Activism in Historical and Global Perspective-Women’s Suffrage-Civil Rights Movement-Anti-globalization, Arab Spring, and Occupy Movements-Immigrants’ Rights Movements-Environmental Justice Movements-Gender and LGBTQIA* Movements-Labor MovementsBibliography2. Problems, Controversies, and SolutionsDebates over Youth Engagement and Apathy-Apathetic, Misguided, and Temporary: Moral Panics about Young People’s Politics-Youth Civic Engagement Programs-Youth CouncilsAgeism and Youth Activism-Ageism in Social Movement Networks and Organizations-Ageism in Interpersonal RelationshipsSolutions-Kids as Teachers and Organizers: Horizontal Political Development-Socializing Up and Out: Youth as Movement Innovators-That’s Ageist! Recognizing and Interrupting AdultismYouth Subcultural Resistance and Activism-Hippies: Utopian Youth Movements-Punk: Confronting Authority through Style-Hip Hop Languages: Graffiti and Spoken Word Counterstories-Hippie, Punk, and Hip-Hop Cultures: Reverberations across Time and SpaceOutcomes of Youth Activism-Biographical Outcomes-Institutional Impact: Schools and Workplaces-Law and Policy Outcomes-Cultural OutcomesBibliography3. PerspectivesRelationships Are Key for Creating Social Change, Charla AgnolettiEmpowering Youth: The Role of Agency in Creative Development Programs, Stephen Smith-ContrerasFrom Shared Spaces of Appearance to Radical Loneliness: Understanding the Conditions of Youth Relational Agency and Political Action, Cihan ErdalResearching Youth Activism: Uncovering the Role of Social Class, Jacqueline KennellyHealing and Youth Organizing, May Lin4. ProfilesIndividuals-Ella Baker (1903-1986) -Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture (1941-1998) -Vickie Castro (1946- )-Jasilyn Charger (they/them, 1996- ) -Maxwell Frost (1997-)-X (formerly Emma) González (they/them, 1999-) -Tom Hayden (1939-2016) -Mario Savio (1942-1996) -Greta Thunberg (2003- ) -Camila Vallejo (1988- ) -Joshua Wong Chi-fung (1996- )Organizations-Black Lives Matter -Extinction Rebellion Youth -Jobbik-United Students Against Sweatshops -Young Americans for FreedomBibliography5. DocumentsPort Huron Statement (1962)El Plan de Santa Barbara (1969)Woodward Report on Freedom of Expression at Yale (1974)Jamie Margolin’s Congressional Testimony (2019)Held v. Montana Court Ruling (2023)Students for Life America Amicus Brief (2024)6. ResourcesBooks and Articles-Biographical Causes and Impacts of Youth Activism-Civil Rights and Post-Civil Rights Youth Activism-College Student Activism-Digital Activism-Environmental Activism-Global Justice Activism-High School Student Activism-Intergenerational and Generational Politics-Intersectionality-Neoliberalism-Subcultures and Activism-Youth Civic Engagement and Citizenship PoliticsDocumentary Films7. ChronologyGlossaryIndex

Hava Rachel Gordon, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver, USA. She is the author of This Is Our School! Race and Community Resistance to School Reform (2021), which won the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association.

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• Preface1. Background and HistoryDefining Youth-Inventing America, Inventing Youth-Teenagers, Stereotypes, and Social Inequality-College Student Activism-High School Student ActivismDefining Activism-Civic and Movement Organizations-School-based Activism-Internet-based Activism-Conservative and Right-Wing Youth Activism: Gangs, Subcultures, or Movements?Youth Activism in Historical and Global Perspective-Women’s Suffrage-Civil Rights Movement-Anti-globalization, Arab Spring, and Occupy Movements-Immigrants’ Rights Movements-Environmental Justice Movements-Gender and LGBTQIA* Movements-Labor MovementsBibliography2. Problems, Controversies, and SolutionsDebates over Youth Engagement and Apathy-Apathetic, Misguided, and Temporary: Moral Panics about Young People’s Politics-Youth Civic Engagement Programs-Youth CouncilsAgeism and Youth Activism-Ageism in Social Movement Networks and Organizations-Ageism in Interpersonal RelationshipsSolutions-Kids as Teachers and Organizers: Horizontal Political Development-Socializing Up and Out: Youth as Movement Innovators-That’s Ageist! Recognizing and Interrupting AdultismYouth Subcultural Resistance and Activism-Hippies: Utopian Youth Movements-Punk: Confronting Authority through Style-Hip Hop Languages: Graffiti and Spoken Word Counterstories-Hippie, Punk, and Hip-Hop Cultures: Reverberations across Time and SpaceOutcomes of Youth Activism-Biographical Outcomes-Institutional Impact: Schools and Workplaces-Law and Policy Outcomes-Cultural OutcomesBibliography3. PerspectivesRelationships Are Key for Creating Social Change, Charla AgnolettiEmpowering Youth: The Role of Agency in Creative Development Programs, Stephen Smith-ContrerasFrom Shared Spaces of Appearance to Radical Loneliness: Understanding the Conditions of Youth Relational Agency and Political Action, Cihan ErdalResearching Youth Activism: Uncovering the Role of Social Class, Jacqueline KennellyHealing and Youth Organizing, May Lin4. ProfilesIndividuals-Ella Baker (1903-1986) -Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture (1941-1998) -Vickie Castro (1946- )-Jasilyn Charger (they/them, 1996- ) -Maxwell Frost (1997-)-X (formerly Emma) González (they/them, 1999-) -Tom Hayden (1939-2016) -Mario Savio (1942-1996) -Greta Thunberg (2003- ) -Camila Vallejo (1988- ) -Joshua Wong Chi-fung (1996- )Organizations-Black Lives Matter -Extinction Rebellion Youth -Jobbik-United Students Against Sweatshops -Young Americans for FreedomBibliography5. DocumentsPort Huron Statement (1962)El Plan de Santa Barbara (1969)Woodward Report on Freedom of Expression at Yale (1974)Jamie Margolin’s Congressional Testimony (2019)Held v. Montana Court Ruling (2023)Students for Life America Amicus Brief (2024)6. ResourcesBooks and Articles-Biographical Causes and Impacts of Youth Activism-Civil Rights and Post-Civil Rights Youth Activism-College Student Activism-Digital Activism-Environmental Activism-Global Justice Activism-High School Student Activism-Intergenerational and Generational Politics-Intersectionality-Neoliberalism-Subcultures and Activism-Youth Civic Engagement and Citizenship PoliticsDocumentary Films7. ChronologyGlossaryIndex

Hava Rachel Gordon, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver, USA. She is the author of This Is Our School! Race and Community Resistance to School Reform (2021), which won the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association.

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• Preface1. Background and HistoryDefining Youth-Inventing America, Inventing Youth-Teenagers, Stereotypes, and Social Inequality-College Student Activism-High School Student ActivismDefining Activism-Civic and Movement Organizations-School-based Activism-Internet-based Activism-Conservative and Right-Wing Youth Activism: Gangs, Subcultures, or Movements?Youth Activism in Historical and Global Perspective-Women’s Suffrage-Civil Rights Movement-Anti-globalization, Arab Spring, and Occupy Movements-Immigrants’ Rights Movements-Environmental Justice Movements-Gender and LGBTQIA* Movements-Labor MovementsBibliography2. Problems, Controversies, and SolutionsDebates over Youth Engagement and Apathy-Apathetic, Misguided, and Temporary: Moral Panics about Young People’s Politics-Youth Civic Engagement Programs-Youth CouncilsAgeism and Youth Activism-Ageism in Social Movement Networks and Organizations-Ageism in Interpersonal RelationshipsSolutions-Kids as Teachers and Organizers: Horizontal Political Development-Socializing Up and Out: Youth as Movement Innovators-That’s Ageist! Recognizing and Interrupting AdultismYouth Subcultural Resistance and Activism-Hippies: Utopian Youth Movements-Punk: Confronting Authority through Style-Hip Hop Languages: Graffiti and Spoken Word Counterstories-Hippie, Punk, and Hip-Hop Cultures: Reverberations across Time and SpaceOutcomes of Youth Activism-Biographical Outcomes-Institutional Impact: Schools and Workplaces-Law and Policy Outcomes-Cultural OutcomesBibliography3. PerspectivesRelationships Are Key for Creating Social Change, Charla AgnolettiEmpowering Youth: The Role of Agency in Creative Development Programs, Stephen Smith-ContrerasFrom Shared Spaces of Appearance to Radical Loneliness: Understanding the Conditions of Youth Relational Agency and Political Action, Cihan ErdalResearching Youth Activism: Uncovering the Role of Social Class, Jacqueline KennellyHealing and Youth Organizing, May Lin4. ProfilesIndividuals-Ella Baker (1903-1986) -Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture (1941-1998) -Vickie Castro (1946- )-Jasilyn Charger (they/them, 1996- ) -Maxwell Frost (1997-)-X (formerly Emma) González (they/them, 1999-) -Tom Hayden (1939-2016) -Mario Savio (1942-1996) -Greta Thunberg (2003- ) -Camila Vallejo (1988- ) -Joshua Wong Chi-fung (1996- )Organizations-Black Lives Matter -Extinction Rebellion Youth -Jobbik-United Students Against Sweatshops -Young Americans for FreedomBibliography5. DocumentsPort Huron Statement (1962)El Plan de Santa Barbara (1969)Woodward Report on Freedom of Expression at Yale (1974)Jamie Margolin’s Congressional Testimony (2019)Held v. Montana Court Ruling (2023)Students for Life America Amicus Brief (2024)6. ResourcesBooks and Articles-Biographical Causes and Impacts of Youth Activism-Civil Rights and Post-Civil Rights Youth Activism-College Student Activism-Digital Activism-Environmental Activism-Global Justice Activism-High School Student Activism-Intergenerational and Generational Politics-Intersectionality-Neoliberalism-Subcultures and Activism-Youth Civic Engagement and Citizenship PoliticsDocumentary Films7. ChronologyGlossaryIndex