Gloria Howerton is an assistant professor in the department of geography and anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Leanne Purdum is a visiting assistant professor in the law, politics, and society program at Drake University.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Gloria Howerton and Leanne Purdum Part 1: Attempts to Categorize and Manage Youth 1. Working and Schooling: A Critical Geography of Child Labor and Compulsory Education Laws in the Early Twentieth-Century United States Meghan Cope 2. Protecting Youth: The Dismantling of Youth as a "Particular Social Group" in Contemporary Asylum Law Kristina M. Campbell 3. "Met with the Full Prosecutorial Powers": Zero-Tolerance Family Separations, Advocacy, and the Exceptionalism of the Child Asylum Seeker Leanne Purdum 4. Understanding New York's Opt-Out Movement: How School Segregation Shaped the Nation's Largest Resistance to Standardized Testing Olivia Ildefonso Part 2: Youth Resistance and Resilience 5. The Coming of the Superpredators: Race, Policing, and Resistance to the Criminalization of Youth Marsha Weissman, Glenn Rodriguez, and Evan Weissman 6. BreakOUT!: Queer and Trans of Color Activism in New Orleans Krista L. Benson 7. Black Youth Resistance to Policies, Practices, and Dominant Narratives of the St. Louis Voluntary Desegregation Plan Jerome E. Morris and Wanda F. McGowan 8. The Tribunal of the Future: Youth, Responsibility, and Temporal Justice in US Climate Change Litigation Mark Ortiz Contributors Index
This volume is one of the only of its kind, and its engagement with geography, the law, and policy-while reframing children and childhood-stands to make many contributions and interventions in the field."-Nicole Nguyen, author of A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public Schools