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At risk : black youth and the creative imperative in the post-civil rights era
- Title
- At risk : black youth and the creative imperative in the post-civil rights era / Jennifer Griffiths.
- Author
- Griffiths, Jennifer L., 1968-
- Publication
- Jackson : University of Mississippi Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- ix, 190 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cultures of childhood
- Uniform Title
- Cultures of childhood.
- Subject
- Creative ability in adolescence
- Creative ability in children
- Gifted children > Education > United States
- At-risk youth > United States
- Youth, Black > United States
- Youth with social disabilities > United States
- Children of minorities > Education > United States
- African American students
- African Americans > Education
- At-risk youth
- Children of minorities > Education
- Gifted children > Education
- Youth, Black
- Youth with social disabilities
- Gifted children
- Children of minorities
- African Americans
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "On the verge of flying Black": the problematic of the young, gifted, and Black artist in Bill Gunn's Johnnas -- Chapter 2. "My portrait is gold": resiliency and the crisis of the Black child's image in Dael Orlandersmith's The Gimmick -- Chapter 3. -- Posttraumatic literacies and the material body in Sapphire's Push -- Chapter 4. "My body of a free boy...my body of dance": violence and the choreography of survival in Sapphire's The Kid -- Chapter 5. "You're young, you're Black, and you're on trial. What else do they need to know?": reading Walter Dean Myers's Monster -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-312
- ISBN
- 1496841719
- 9781496841711
- 9781496841704
- 1496841700
- OCLC
- 1316777664
- Author
- Griffiths, Jennifer L., 1968- author.
- Title
- At risk : black youth and the creative imperative in the post-civil rights era / Jennifer Griffiths.
- Publisher
- Jackson : University of Mississippi Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cultures of childhoodCultures of childhood.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-312