The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship
Race and Revolt in Education
The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship argues that Black youth—and all poor youth of color—have been cast as anti-citizens, disenfranchised from the social, political, and economic mainstream of American life. Through a range of methodological approaches and conceptual interventions, the contributors illuminate how youth negotiate and exercise anti-citizenship as either resistance or refusal in response to coercive patriotism, cultural imperialism, and predatory capitalism.
The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship argues that Black youth—and all poor youth of color—have been cast as anti-citizens, disenfranchised from the social, political, and economic mainstream of American life. Instead of asking youth to conform to a larger societal structure undergirded by racial capitalism and antiblackness, the volume’s contributors propose that the collective practice of anti-citizenship opens up a liberatory space for youth to challenge the social order.
The chapters cover an array of topics, including Black youth in the charter school experiment in post-Katrina New Orleans; racial capitalism, the queering of ethnicity, and the 1980s Salvadoran migration to South Central Los Angeles; and the decolonization of classrooms through Palestinian liberation narratives. Through a range of methodological approaches and conceptual interventions, this collection illuminates how youth negotiate and exercise anti-citizenship as either resistance or refusal in response to coercive patriotism, cultural imperialism, and predatory capitalism.
Contributors: Karlyn Adams-Wiggins, Portland State U; Ariana Denise Brazier; Julio Cammarota, U of Arizona; Michael Davis, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Damaris C. Dunn, U of Georgia; Diana Gamez, U of California, Irvine; Rachel F. Gómez, Virginia Commonwealth U; Luma Hasan; Gabriel Rodriguez, Iowa State U; Christopher R. Rogers, U of Pennsylvania; Damien M. Sojoyner, U of California, Irvine.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Predatory Inclusion in American Democracy: Youth and the Imperative of Anti-citizenship
Kevin L. Clay
Part I. And the Children Will Lead Them: Youth Fugitivity as Anti-citizenship Pedagogy
1. Black Youth Refusing: Drapetomania and Neoliberal Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr.
2. Radicalizing Black Child Play, Conspiring in the Familiar Zones
Ariana Brazier
3. Radical Black Joy Is Citizenship
Damaris C. Dunn
Part II. Seeing the Invisible: On Youth Anti-citizenship and the Struggle for the (Under)Commons
4. Coloniality and Antiblack Racism in Black Adolescent Girls’ Lived Experiences
Karlyn Adams-Wiggins
5. Queering the Citizen? Exposing the Myths of Racial Capital Fantasies
Diana Gamez and Damien M. Sojoyner
6. Black Youth Organizing for the Destruction of Schooling, the Citizen, and the World
Michael Davis
7. We Have Nothing Left to Prove, Yet a Whole New World to Accomplish
Christopher R. Rogers
Part III. “Who Do You Love, Are You for Sure?” Rejecting Citizenship’s Assimilations
8. Reclaiming the “Mexican Problem”: Chicano Youth, Agency, and the Rearticulation of Citizenship
Rachel F. Gómez and Julio Cammarota
9. Unsettling the “Good Citizen:” How Narratives of Palestinian Liberation Threatened a Liberal School
Luma Hasan
10. Enacting Identities of Resistance in Suburban Schools: Latinx Youth and the Possibilities of Anti-citizenship
Gabriel Rodriguez
Contributors
Index
