ERIC Number: EJ1131041
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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"We Need a 'Song'": Sustaining Critical Youth Organizing Literacies through World Humanities
Butler, Tamara
Equity & Excellence in Education, v50 n1 p84-95 2017
This article intervenes in the long-standing conversations around which youth activism, literacies, and civic engagement take place. In an effort to expand the boundaries of activism to include the work of youth critical literacies within the classroom, this article highlights the work of four female high school students of color as they bring attention to human sex trafficking. Findings show that students are introduced to and given the space to engage in "critical youth organizing literacies" through their class project. Therefore, through similar projects, classrooms become sites where young people learn to select and critique texts in order to mobilize peers and community members.
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Youth, Activism, Critical Literacy, Humanities, Females, High School Students, African American Students, Minority Group Students, World History, Social Justice, Grade 9, Sexuality, Adolescents, Violence, Advocacy, Consciousness Raising
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 9; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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