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Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling
Vietnamese American Youth in a Postcolonial Context
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About this book
Winner of theAmerican Educational Studies Association2016 Critics' Choice Book Award Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling examines the formation of Vietnamese American youth gangs in Southern California. Lam addresses the particularities of racism, violence, and schooling in an era of anti-youth legislation and frames gang members as post-colonial subjects, offering an alternative analysis toward humanization and decolonization.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Editorsā Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Theorizing Vietnamese American Youth Gang Formation in Southern California
- 1 Vietnamese and US Empire
- 2 Critical Theories of Racism and Asian American Identities: A Materialist Critique
- 3 āTheater of the Oppressedā: Vietnamese and Asian American Youth Violence
- 4 āNo One Is Looking Into Our Shit!ā: Vietnamese American Youth Gang Narratives
- 5 The Politics of Migration, Space, and Racialization: Analysis and Synthesis
- 6 Toward a Pedagogy of the Dispossessed
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index