...This chapter focuses on the conflicts around Skyline High School between black middle-class parents and white homeowners who fought over whether children at the school were dangerous criminals or innocent kids. It begins with a portrait of Loraine and James Smith, a couple who led very active...

... and ordinary Americans that they were worthy. Furthermore, the growth of secondary education led to more meaningful connections between the age of eighteen and high school graduation as the moment at which young people embarked upon adulthood. Activists also emphasized the positive attributes of youthful...

.... And it sponsors a “before-school” support program at a public high school in a low-income, crime-ridden neighborhood in the city. Both of these programs are similar to efforts made by many congregations, but they also reveal how the church leadership struggles to handle issues of race and inequality beyond its...

...This chapter offers scholars a nonethnographic way to explore children's religious worlds with an in-depth analysis of the author's experiences developing surveys with Bosnian Muslim high school students. This case study made use of a two-stage process involving the use of a small-sample pilot...

... benefit from playing college sports; and Title IX's progress in tackling issues involving male athletes who become fathers and high school athletes who become pregnant. basketball college athletes and athletics female athletes and athletics Goodwin Fantasia pregnancy Syracuse University abortions...

... and care work, and intersectional approaches to studying gender nonconformity. It discusses the book’s specific ethnographic focus on gender-nonconforming youth as well as how the young people in the study understood and engaged with terminology. This chapter also introduces the high school as well...

... is once again taking the lead; however, adapting the Ross model to fit a Swedish public high school in a deeply segregated neighborhood proves to be an enormous challenge. The chapter traces the multiple-year effort of a team of principals, teachers, and staff from Ross and Tensta working transnationally...

...This chapter examines the lunch menu at Thurgood High School, focusing on the work of food director Brenda, with the aim to deepen our understanding of the complexity of school lunch as a high-stakes public good. Brenda had a no-nonsense style about her; she rarely minced words, but was warm in her...

...This chapter returns to the lunchroom at Thurgood High School to explore food as an object through which youth forge relationships to the institution of school and each other. It examines the social uses of the cafeteria, the geography of groups, and the symbolic role of food for the cafeteria...

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... with familial experiences of social and economic insecurity. In particular, it considers the aspiration management of students of Sanders High School in Palo Alto, as well as the students' view of their school as a zone of self-expression and exceptionalism. It also discusses the students' marketing...

...” to the community by pursuing careers in public service, especially those that monitor and serve at-risk communities. It also explores how students of the “School-to-Career” Biotechnology Academy at Morton High School linked their pattern of aspiration to the school's emphasis on taking responsibility...

...This chapter features the Shin family and their ongoing efforts to help a wayward son navigate a rocky road toward young adulthood. At the start of the ethnographic involvement with this family, the son had gotten into minor troubles with the law and was struggling to graduate from high school...

...This chapter discusses a case involving the closure of a high school. School personnel, community leaders, and youth had formed the Student Leadership Council after a contentious spring culminated in the closing of the school. Researchers approached the group to ask if they could form a partnership...

...This chapter focuses on Washington High School and its cafeteria, examining the different types of food found there and the role of parents in shaping the cafeteria and students, with specific attention to social class and its consequence for a public food provisioning system. The first part...

..., this chapter uses a proxy group, defined by individuals who arrived in the United States as very young children, before the age of three. Based on data for this group, high-school dropout rates for the Mexican second generation are quite high but indicators of involvement in risky behaviors are relatively low...

... by these policies and practices. Based on a yearlong ethnography in a high school alongside youth who were rarely recognized as trans, this book explores the often-unnoticed labor youth performed as they worked to exist and thrive, regardless of whether others understood them. Youth daily worked to invite expansive...

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