Youth activism

Student activism, diversity, and the struggle for a just society. The author of the article, Robert A. Rhoads (2016), incorporates many of his researches on student activism, specifically that of gay and lesbian students, in this article to prove his credibility. The article is divided into three sections: the sixties, post-sixties, and contemporary context, all of which focus on student activism in different time periods. The sixties, known for the civil rights moments, saw a huge support from…

much activism, when in reality she worked hard in order to help push for equality. In her article “How History Got the Rosa Parks Story Wrong,” author Jeanne Theoharis expresses that Rosa Parks was a lifelong activist, rebellious, and also a women’s rights activist through the use of various pieces of evidence to contradict the misconception that Parks was a quiet woman who was only involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In the article, Theoharis shows Parks’s lifelong commitment to activism…

effect on American culture and its effect on the youth. With the new growing popularity of Chicago hip hop culture, there arguably hasn’t been a resurgence of rap this sizable since the days of Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, NWA, and Nas spreading the message of gang violence and the appalling conditions of ghettos in the USA. However, accompanied with the recent rise in popularity of Chicago hip hop, also comes a recently growing awareness and activism surrounding police brutality and the…

most influential people of the movement. He is a Jewish gay writer born in Connecticut in 1935. His breakout novel was his book “Faggots,” a critique on the lifestyle of gay men in the 70s. When the AIDS virus hits the US he finds another calling in activism. He forms the groups Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ACT UP. Throughout his controversial life he’s found many enemies, though. Larry was always a critic on gay men and their culture, and this was apparent in his novel “Faggots.” It gained…

Throughout history, there has been a plethora of youth-led social movements that have had significant impacts on society and the world around them. As time continues on, these youth-led movements have picked up even more speed and have become increasingly popular. Everywhere you look there are groups led by young people working together to make some sort of significant impact on the world in which they live in. From initiatives such as college and university groups coming together to fight…

Marr Maira, The 9/11 Generation: Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on the Terror, is an ethnographic study of youth organizations and solidarity to understand the mobilization of Muslim youth in different communities in the Bay Area. After 9/11, many Muslim, Arabs, and South Asians increased in partaking in political subjectivity and orientation related to Islamophobia, global politics in the Middle East, and US policies. Many Muslim students took part in youth organizations as according…

Pardo (1998)- The interventions were Identity Activism, and the overall population was homogeneous, being Latina Catholic mothers. The role of the consumers was to address community concerns at school and within the neighborhood. They did through community organizing with the help of political activism. Ferguson (2007) The interventions were the Social Enterprise Intervention (SEI) that focuses on preventive intervention with outreach, gaining job skills, and links to other services. The role…

Commitment to activism, consciousness, and cultural pride; the three defining characteristics of the traditional Chican@ definition. With such brevity, its easy for one to overlook the imperative value that this definition had to its identifiers. To be Chican@, was not just a geographical symbol, but rather an identity based on political culture that impacted the everyday choices of these individuals. As displayed within Rodolfo Corky Gonzales’s “I Am Joaquin”, the poem and the traditional…

Introduction: Before starting this fieldwork I will define some keywords these keywords are social media activism, zeitgeist and mobile devices. Social media activism is defined as the anything that makes or change history, with the use of new media, one is able to communicate or protest beyond just a close circle of people. (Muslin D, 2013). Zeitgeist is defined as the spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time. Research Question: How…

history, media coverage has had a profound impact on the public’s opinion on diverse subjects. Through various writing and visual techniques, journalists portray their values and beliefs on pressing topics, such as political activism. In the 1960s, African American civil rights activism reached unprecedented numbers, which prompted a rise in polarizing reception. The March on Washington and the Montgomery to Selma march were two of the most monumental moments in the black civil rights movement. …