Youth dialogues on race and ethnicity: challenging segregation and strengthening diversity

In: Social justice and youth community practice series

In: Oxford scholarship online

Abstract

In 'Youth Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity', Barry Checkoway describes the work of a specific university-community partnership program: Youth Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity in Metropolitan Detroit. Including an analysis of the program's origins and objectives, activities and accomplishments, facilitating and limiting factors, and lessons learned from practice, Checkoway provides an unprecedented example of young people working together across segregated boundaries to transform their lives and communities. He also examines youth dialogues as a process, young people as change agents, adults as allies and partners, and the anchor institutions that support this work.