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Senior Seminar in Childhood Studies: Youth Activism

A research guide for Dr. Miller and Dr. Vallone's sections of Senior Seminar in Childhood Studies: Youth Activism.

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Suggested Titles

Berghel, Susan Eckerman, Sara Fieldston, and Paul M. Renfro. Growing Up America: Youth and Politics. University of Georgia Press, 2019.

Clay, Andreana. The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth, Activism and Post-Civil Rights Politics. NYU Press, 2012.

Cullen Dave. Parkland: Birth of a Movement. New York: Harper, 2019.

Gordon, Hava Rachel. We Fight to Win: Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism. Rutgers University Press, 2009.

Sherrod, Lonnie R. Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006.

Taft, Jessica K. Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas. NYU Press, 2010.

Brodkin, Karen. Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles. Rutgers University Press, 2009.

Rice, Laurie L. The Political Voices of Generation Z. Routledge, 2022.

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