Books in the Adolescent Cultures, School & Society series

A Culture of Refusal is a unique attempt at representing a set of what William Ayers calls «multiply-marginalized» adolescents, situating the voices of migrant and incarcerated youth within out-of-school contexts ¿ in the fields and the streets, and ultimately, in the jails ¿ where these youth live and develop their own cultures of refusal. By exploring and analyzing these environments, this book searches for the ways in which a pragmatic, pro-active response to societal and institutional racism and violence may be nurtured through the adolescents¿ own lives and literacies.

Today's College Students: A Reader looks at a wide variety of student groups and identities, which sets it apart from other texts on contemporary college students that do not cover such a broad spectrum.

Today's College Students: A Reader looks at a wide variety of student groups and identities, which sets it apart from other texts on contemporary college students that do not cover such a broad spectrum.

This book will stimulate vitally needed "out-of-the-box" thinking about curricula among faculty, administrators, and students, and ultimately invite the emergence of more radically diverse visions and realities for today's college curriculum.

Suitable for teachers, students, and scholars interested in the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents, this book begins to reorient the discourse on young adolescent growth and change and in turn reconceptualize the education of young adolescents.

Suitable for teachers, students, and scholars interested in the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents, this book begins to reorient the discourse on young adolescent growth and change and in turn reconceptualize the education of young adolescents.

Presenting multiple perspectives on a wide array of crucial issues, this book features realistic representations of students, faculty, curriculum, administration, and the socio-cultural conditions that shape higher education. The incisive essays are written by practitioners on the front lines of the academy's battle to validate and sustain its core principles in a complex, rapidly evolving world.

Presenting multiple perspectives on a wide array of crucial issues, this book features realistic representations of students, faculty, curriculum, administration, and the socio-cultural conditions that shape higher education. The incisive essays are written by practitioners on the front lines of the academy's battle to validate and sustain its core principles in a complex, rapidly evolving world.

A Persistent Reformer

A Persistent Reformer

Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this title highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals of global hip-hop.

Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this title highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals of global hip-hop.

Brings a perspective to one of the protracted issues affecting young lives - disengagement from schooling. This book examines disengagement from the vantage point of the lives, experiences, interests and aspirations of the communities from which young people come, and within which they are embedded.

Beyond Progress and Marginalization

Beyond Progress and Marginalization

Drawing from disciplines including anthropology, sociology, education, and cultural studies, this title includes the chapters that examines practices that youth who are members of traditionally marginalized groups develop through engagement in the varied contexts of their everyday lives.

Boys' Bodies

Boys' Bodies

This book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education.

This book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education.