Canal Town Youth by Julia Hall
This book considers how impoverished youth living in a deindustrialized urban neighborhood struggle to make sense of their lives in today's economy. Using participant observation and in-depth interviews with a group of eighteen white middle school girls and boys who walk each day from their multi-ethnic bilingual school to the historically white/Irish community center, the author discovered that the poor white youth are experiencing lives saturated with domestic violence and marked by a strong sense of racism. She also found that the youth position the community center as a space in which they feel a sense of safety, belonging, and importance. But upon closer examination, the community center can also be seen as a literal white "construction site," where the scaffolding that supports and sustains white supremacist ideology is produced and encouraged within children, within the neighborhood, across communities, and across generations.-
Late to Class
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Working at the Margins
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Codes and Contradictions
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Constructing Race
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Becoming Women/Becoming Workers
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Meaningful Urban Education Reform
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Constructing Female Identities
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Beyond Black and White
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Making and Molding Identity in Schools
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The Citizen Factory
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The Cultural Production of the Educated Person
"Unlike many school ethnographies, Hall interrogates the articulation between economic decline and racial and gender attitudes in the American 'rust belt' and Irish American communityShe really brings home how one particular segment of the working class is ideologically trapped in a historically specific racial/gender backlash, thus highly susceptible to present-day right wing demagoguery. Her chilling discussions of the normalization of domestic violence are particularly powerful." — Douglas E. Foley, coeditor of The Cultural Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographies of Schooling and Local Practice
Julia Hall teaches at Buffalo State College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791448144 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791448142 |
| Title | Canal Town Youth |
| Author | Julia Hall |
| Series | Suny Series Power Social Identity And Education |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2001-01-11 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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