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At risk : black youth and the creative imperative in the post-civil rights era

Title
  1. At risk : black youth and the creative imperative in the post-civil rights era / Jennifer Griffiths.
Published by
  1. Jackson : University of Mississippi Press, [2023]
  2. ©2023
Author
  1. Griffiths, Jennifer L., 1968-

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Description
  1. ix, 190 pages; 23 cm.
Series statement
  1. Cultures of childhood
Uniform title
  1. Cultures of childhood.
Subject
  1. Creative ability in adolescence
  2. Creative ability in children
  3. Gifted children > Education > United States
  4. At-risk youth > United States
  5. Youth, Black > United States
  6. Youth with social disabilities > United States
  7. Children of minorities > Education > United States
  8. African American students
  9. African Americans > Education
  10. At-risk youth
  11. Children of minorities > Education
  12. Gifted children > Education
  13. Youth, Black
  14. Youth with social disabilities
  15. Gifted children
  16. Children of minorities
  17. African Americans
  18. United States
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Sc D 23-312
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.
Author
  1. Griffiths, Jennifer L., 1968- author.
Title
  1. At risk : black youth and the creative imperative in the post-civil rights era / Jennifer Griffiths.
Publisher
  1. Jackson : University of Mississippi Press, [2023]
Copyright date
  1. ©2023
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Cultures of childhood
  2. Cultures of childhood.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.
Local subject
  1. Black author.
ISBN
  1. 1496841719 (trade paperback)
  2. 9781496841711 (trade paperback)
  3. 9781496841704 (hardback)
  4. 1496841700 (hardback)
Research call number
  1. Sc D 23-312
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