Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
Cathy J. Cohen
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 0195378008
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In Democracy Remixed, award-winning scholar Cathy J. Cohen offers an authoritative and empirically powerful analysis of the state of black youth in America today. Utilizing the results from the Black Youth Project, a groundbreaking nationwide survey, Cohen focuses on what young Black Americans actually experience and think--and underscores the political repercussions. Featuring stories from cities across the country, she reveals that black youth want, in large part, what most Americans want--a good job, a fulfilling life, safety, respect, and equality. But while this generation has much in common with the rest of America, they also believe that equality does not yet exist, at least not in their lives. Many believe that they are treated as second-class citizens. Moreover, for many the future seems bleak when they look at their neighborhoods, their schools, and even their own lives and choices. Through their words, these young people provide a complex and balanced picture of the intersection of opportunity and discrimination in their lives. Democracy Remixed provides the insight we need to transform the future of young Black Americans and American democracy.
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And incarceration to prevention and treatment. We must revise our current laws that continue to send disproportionate numbers of black youth to jail for nonviolent and drug-related offenses. Community-based justice programs and the provision of drug treatment instead of traditional incarceration is one approach to lessen the number of young people sentenced to jail or prison for nonviolent drug offenses. For those young people already incarcerated, we must provide more coordinated and extensive.
And Peril among the Black Middle Class (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999); Anne Arnette Ferguson, Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001). 2. Throughout this book I will use the categories white, Latino, Asian, and black to separate and divide by race the young people discussed. I recognize that some Latinos also identify as white racially. In the analysis provided we make the arbitrary decision to separate and group.
The past. They are also increasingly subject to neoliberal policies that emphasize privatization and the rhetoric of individual responsibility and choice. Therefore, they do not want to hear or promote what they believe is the same old story about a racist structure holding our youth down. And while most black Americans are willing to believe that the combination of limited opportunities and individuals’ bad choices has truncated the life trajectory of significant numbers of black youth, this.
From a rhetoric of striving—striving to be married, striving to have two-parent households, striving to be het-erosexual—to a discourse that highlights the true norms of family life in black communities with a focus on acceptance and empowerment. Ironically, it is because of President Obama that this moment can be rescued and transformation in our thinking can occur. We sometimes have to be reminded that President Obama is an example of the true normative picture in black communities and,.
With nothing but earning power in their futures would be alienated from politics and the state? This question will undoubtedly be amplified now that the state is headed by a black president. Yet while those of an older generation might be frustrated with the attitudes and behaviors of young black people, the data from the Black Youth Project suggest that black youth are not the only ones exhibiting feelings of alienation. If we refer to two questions discussed previously, we can explore and.