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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The National Context: Neoliberal Education Reform, Race, and Resistance -- 2. The Reformers: Race, Privilege, and Saving Children from Disaster -- 3. The Dispossessed: Neighborhood Activists Beating Back Gentrification -- 4. Fragile Alliances: Cross- Racial Solidarity and Conflict in Community Claims to the Neighborhood School -- 5. No Permanent Enemies, No Permanent Allies: The Politics of Reformer- Community Nonprofit Partnerships -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Methodological Appendix: Researching Urban School Reform and Community Movements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

"The book provides a rich description of four movement sectors in one city all claiming to fight for educational justice. It combines theoretical insight from studies of urban reform, neoliberalism, education and social movements, and integrates rich ethnographic detail and activist narratives to illustrate education movement victories and defeats"--

This book offers a compelling account of young people's attempts to get involved in community politics, and documents the battles waged to form youth movements and create social change in schools and neighborhoods.--[book cover].

This article examines how gender shapes the development, involvement, and visibility of teenagers as political actors within their communities. Based on ethnographic research with two high school student movement organizations on the West Coast, the author argues that gender impacts the potential for young people's political consciousness to translate into public, social movement participation. Specifically, the gendered ways in which youth conceptualize and negotiate parental power influences whether or not, and in what ways, youth can emerge as visible agents of social change in their communities. For girl activists, there is more of a marked discontinuity between their political ideals and their political action because of their conflicts with parental power than for boys. This article considers the consequences of teens' relationships to parental power on their sociopolitical development, as well as the counter-effects posed by the feminist interventions of adult allies within youth movements.