Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling
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Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling

Vietnamese American Youth in a Postcolonial Context

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Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling

Vietnamese American Youth in a Postcolonial Context

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Winner of theAmerican Educational Studies Association2016 Critics' Choice Book Award Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling examines the formation of Vietnamese American youth gangs in Southern California. Lam addresses the particularities of racism, violence, and schooling in an era of anti-youth legislation and frames gang members as post-colonial subjects, offering an alternative analysis toward humanization and decolonization.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2015
ISBN
9781137475596
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Sociologie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Series Editors’ Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction Theorizing Vietnamese American Youth Gang Formation in Southern California
  8. 1 Vietnamese and US Empire
  9. 2 Critical Theories of Racism and Asian American Identities: A Materialist Critique
  10. 3 “Theater of the Oppressed”: Vietnamese and Asian American Youth Violence
  11. 4 “No One Is Looking Into Our Shit!”: Vietnamese American Youth Gang Narratives
  12. 5 The Politics of Migration, Space, and Racialization: Analysis and Synthesis
  13. 6 Toward a Pedagogy of the Dispossessed
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index