| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The politics children make -- Governing children: paternalism, membership, subjugation, and abandonment -- Leveraging children in democratic politics: symbols, recruits, and collateral -- The political agency of young people -- Centering children in democratic politics |
| Summary |
"Democracy's Child places young people at the heart of pivotal conflicts, decisions and transformations in American politics. From the March for Our Lives and Black Lives Matter, to Gay Straight Alliances and the Dreamer and Sunrise movements, the prominence of young people as agents of change are unmistakable in contemporary political life. Yet as Gash and Tichenor show, these movements reflect a long history of youth political mobilization and leadership, including Progressive Era labor organizing and 1960s civil rights and anti-war activism. Children also are crucial subjects of government and adult control, inspiring contention in nearly every realm of public policy, such as education, social welfare, abortion, gun control, immigration, civil rights and liberties, and criminal justice. And young people are regularly leveraged in political life as influential symbols of innocence and deviance, or treated as political collateral (as the spectacle of "kids in cages" under the Trump administration's "family separation" policy vividly captures). In a narrative that ranges from history and law to young adult literature, Democracy's Child reveals why the control, leveraging, and agency of young people shapes and defines our political landscape. Along the way, readers learn about age or childhood as a concrete difference that combines with gender, race, class, immigration status, or sexual orientation to produce powerful systems of privilege or disadvantage"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed on January 11, 2023) |
| Subject |
Children and politics.
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Youth -- Political activity -- United States
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Youth -- United States -- Social conditions
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Child welfare -- United States
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Child welfare
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Children and politics
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Politics and government
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Youth -- Political activity
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Youth -- Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tichenor, Daniel J., 1966- author.
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| LC no. |
2022018808 |
| ISBN |
9780197581698 |
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0197581692 |
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9780197581674 |
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0197581676 |
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