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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The timeline of young peoples' rights in the United States, including children and youth rights, includes a variety of events ranging from youth activism to mass demonstrations. There is no "golden age" in the American children's rights movement. The history of children's rights in the United States ranges from the earliest years of European settlements on North America. Poor children were routinely and legally indentured in colonial New England by the "poor laws." In 1676 Nathan Knight, an eight year old boy, was apprenticed to a mason, "bound... to serve and abide the full space and term of twelve years and five months." Provided food, shelter and clothes in exchange for his labor, the boy was not allowed to leave his master until he was 21 years old. ... Read more

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Al inicio de la decada de los 70, un parte de la generaacion del 68 arribo al mundo fabril de la ciudad de Mexico para colaborar en la reorganizacion del sindicalismo obreo. Estos cuentos recogen parte de esa asombrosa experiencia. repletos de sentido del humor, vientos de locura y miniepaica popular, estas narraciones recorren un tiempo, fabrican una nostalgia y reconstuyen un fragmento de nuestra oculta hitoria. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Student rights are those rights which protect students, here meaning those persons attending schools, universities and other educational institutions. The level of rights accorded to students, whether legally or by convention, varies considerably around the world.In 2000, in the AlBaho Case, a French criminal court found three senior academics at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI), guilty of email espionage on a graduate (doctoral) student. The ruling set an important precedent in e-mail privacy but it was also a landmark ruling in student rights since this was the only known incident where academic staff where found guilty of a criminal act as a result of a complaint made by a student - and where those staff members had the full support of their institution. ... Read more

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Youth, Identity, Power is a unique exploration of the origins and development of Chicano radicalism in America.

Youth, Identity, Power is the classic study of the origins of the1960s Chicano civil rights movement. Written by a leader of the Chicano studentmovement who also played a key role in the creation of the wider ChicanoMovement, this is the first full-length work to appear on the subject. It fillsan important gap in the history of political and social protest in the UnitedStates.

Carlos Muñoz places the Chicano Movement in the context of the political andintellectual development of people of Mexican descent in the USA, tracing theemergence of student activists and intellectuals in the 1930s and their initialchallenge to the dominant white racial and class ideologies. He then documentsthe rise and fall of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, situating it within the1960s civil rights and radical movements and assessing the Chicano Movement'scontribution to the development of the Mexican American population and theLatino population as a whole.

In an afterword to this new edition, Muñoz charts the burgeoning growth ofUS Latino communities, assesses the nativist backlash against them, and arguesthat Latinos must play a central role in a new movement for multiracialdemocracy.

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The phrases "hip hop" and "activism" aren't always heard together, but it's a marriage that must be made if black empowerment is to succeed. In Stand and Deliver, Bynoe eloquently advocates replacing charismatic but ineffectual black leaders who beg for crumbs from the white power structure with "citizen-leaders" who actively engage in a policy-centered relationship with that structure. Bynoe shows how hip hoppers can create a more sophisticated dialogue about what constitutes leadership, politics, and political action. This understanding, she argues, comes from influence, and influence comes from the ability to deliver - or deny - money, votes, or both to a political candidate, legislator, or political party. In the words of MC Lyte, all the rest is "chitter chatter." ... Read more

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Hip Hop vs. Old School?
It is probably obvious to any thinking Black American that the movement toward an equitable society is lacking in leadership today. The old school civil rights leaders are not connecting with the Hip Hop generation and the Hip Hop generation does not relate to where the civil rights leaders from the sixties and seventies are coming from. Yvonne Bynoe explores the reasons for this disconnect in the Black community. Her book, STAND AND DELIVER, is rich with the history of the civil rights era and also delves deeply into the psyche of the Hip Hop generation. She is equitable in placing responsibility for shortcomings from both generations where they belong and gives credit where it should be given. Bynoe thoughtfully explores the history and the reasoning behind each generation and gives reasonable explanations about why people do the things they do.

What makes her book an outstanding read is that she doesn't just ask the questions; she also provides reasonable solutions and outlines exactly how activism can once more be a part of the Black community. She gives concrete suggestions for the questions the Hip Hop generation must ask, such as how do we make America an equitable society. She even gives information on how to disagree without destroying a movement. In addition, she reminds those from other generations that they must come to the Hip Hop generation as equals, not with a snobbish attitude that suggests that they know without a shadow of a doubt, how to solve the problem of inequality in America. Bynoe also reminds us that in the new century, we can no longer exclude people from the movement because of race, class, or economic condition but we must find a common ground to insure that all Americans have an equal chance to be the best that they can. I frequently found myself nodding in agreement as I read her words. She is a voice to be reckoned with.

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Reader from PA
This is an excellent and timely book! Ms. Bynoe provides new and important insights about how we should critique and engage political leaders and activists. She is truly an independent thinker who is more interested in people improving their communities than in them propping up ineffectual Black leaders, young or old----based on out-dated rules about party or race unity. Her thoughts about Hip Hop activism are on the money. It is time that the Hip Hop generation move beyond the rhetoric of political activism to actually implementing the tried and true, long-term organizing and mobilizing strategies that actually helped us to make progress years ago. Registration drives without plans to get folks to the polls are not effective!People who talk about problems but who have no solid plans to solve them are irrelevant! Read "Stand and Deliver," Yvonne Bynoe is definitely a new and important voice that we should pay heed to. ... Read more

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This book is about Muslims in Europe and the "War on Terror"--its causes and consequences for European citizenship and exclusion particularly for young people. The rising tide of hostility towards people of Muslim origin is challenged in this collection from a varied and multi national perspective. The book illustrates that Muslims are as diverse a group as those of any other religion; therefore to place all Muslims into one category is wholly unscientific and discriminatory. It shows that there are historical and ideological reasons for viewing Islam as a static, unchanging and regressive force. The chapters illustrate the diversity of societies with Muslim majority populations and challenge the dominant paradigm of what has become to be known since the War on Terror as "Islamophobia". ... Read more

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Compelling underappreciated story of the civil rights movement
In Shadows of Youth, Andrew Lewis upends the traditional narrative of the modern civil rights movement.He puts the hopeful teenagers of the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) who risked their lives with the sit-ins, the freedom rides, and Freedom Summer at the center of the story.Through intertwined biographic sketches of SNCC's young leaders -- Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, Marion Berry, Julian Bond and John Lewis -- this book shows the close relationship between rising postwar optimism, consumerism, the rise of youth culture and the civil rights movement.The Shadows of Youth captures both the danger and the pure fun excitement of heady early Movement days among a generation on the precipice of sweeping change, a generation raised on the promises of the American dream and determined to find it.What also sets this story apart from others of the Movement is its attention to the later careers of these leaders to ask not just what happened to them, but how did the shadow of their early activism extend over their entire lives.Highly readable, instantly engaging.Shadows of Youth is completely accessible to the novice reader as well as to those more steeped in the historiography of the Movement.

Fresh new history of Civil Rights
If your knowledge of the Civ. Rights movement centers on Rev. King and his speeches, his version of civil disobedience, this book is a bit of a revelation.The younger, more secular wing of the movement, here embodied in the SNCC, represents an equally vital and compelling strand of modern US and Af-AM history. Author Lewis tells a rich tale of teenagers who turned themselves from consumers and spectators on the margins of the New South into revolutionary actors who, by simply insisting on their right to sit at the Woolworth's counter and eat a burger, ignited a whole game-changing set of protests and programs. A very involving story that narrates the events of the early 60s from the inside out, bringing you into the heady days of youth, and then, in the second half, bringing you out again to a more sober, mixed, but perhaps no less heroic legacy for the major players of SNCC: Julian Bond, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and others....Beautifully balanced between readable narrative and fresh historical interpretation. Anyone with an interest in how the events of the 60s have continued to shape our own era will find this book essential reading.

Best short history of the civil rights movement
This is a fascinating story about a group, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, that I didn't know much about. So much of the civil rights movement story seems to be only about Martin Luther King, but this fills in the gaps. What I really liked about this book was how beautifully written and full of interesting characters it was. Lewis gives us the big events but he gives it to us from the perspective of the college students who were really leading the civil rights movement. I was blown away by their courage and toughness under fire. This is really a great adventure story masquerading as a history book. ... Read more

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The essayists whose work is collected here-historians, anthropologists, and political scientists-bring their diverse disciplinary perspectives to bear on various forms of violence that have plagued recent African history. Exploring violence as part of political economy and rejecting stereotypical explanations of African violence as endemic or natural to African cultures, the essays examine a continent where the boundaries on acceptable force are always shifting and the distinction between violence by the state and against the state is not always clear.

Many of the essays address generational tensions through the role of African youth, which in this context is almost exclusively male. The violence perpetrated by young men stems not only from ideologies of masculinity but also from a frustration over both their own unrealized adulthood and the failure of an adult leadership whose interaction with the youth often seems limited to enlisting them in more bloodshed. Other essays examine the temptation in an atmosphere of violence to exploit the malleability of memory to construct, or reconstruct, histories in order to justify the sacrifice and shifts of power brought on by that violence.

Wide-ranging but sharply focused, States of Violence takes in power struggles in Sierra Leone, nationalism in postcolonial Zimbabwe, the Bakassi boys of Nigeria, and offers probing examinations of such pivotal events as the Rwandan genocide and the Alexandra Rebellion, shedding new light on the role of each in the drama being played out in this troubled continent.

Contributors William Reno, Northwestern University * Joanna Davidson, Emory University * Daniel Smith, Brown University * Elaine Salo, University of Cape Town * Martha Carey, Emory University * Jocelyn Alexander, Bristol University * Belinda Bozzoli, University of Witswatersrand * Timothy Longman, Vassar College ... Read more

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This book contains a range of original studies on one of the major challenges in Africa today: the controversial role of youth in politics, conflict and rebellious movements. The issue is not only the drafting of child soldiers into insurgent armies or predatory militias, as in Somalia, Sierra Leone or Congo, but, more generally, that of the problematic insertion of large numbers of young people in the socio-economic and political order of post-colonial Africa. Even educated youths are being confronted with a lack of opportunities, blocked social mobility, and despair about the future. Many of the political antagonisms and conflicts in which youths are involved do not only exist at the discursive level but are being produced by current demographic and socio-political contradictions in Africa. African youth, while forming a numerical majority, largely feel excluded from power, are socio-economically marginalized and thwarted in their ambitions. They have little access to representative positions or political power, which is making for a politically volatile situation in many African countries.The authors address several case studies from across Africa: the Mungiki movement in Kenya, youth agency in southern Sudan in times of war, the challenges of 'reintegrating' youthful ex-combatants in Sierra Leone, and street children in Togo. A common aim is to try to explain why patterns of generational conflict and violent response among younger age groups in Africa are showing such a remarkably uneven spread across the continent and to advance the comparative study of youth and generational conflict beyond mere description of the varied empirical cases. ... Read more

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Born after September 1979? Struggling to find a decent job, even though you're a graduate? Can't afford to buy or even rent a house? No prospects? Welcome to the jilted generation.Things go wrong in society all the time, but rarely do they go wrong for an entire generation.Drawing on their own startling new research and writing with an irresistible polemical energy, twenty-something journalists Ed Howker and Shiv Malik argue that, in stark contrast to their parents' generation, millions of young Britons today face the most uncertain future since the early 1930s.Radical, angry and passionate, Jilted Generation takes a closer look at who's to blame for locking out Britain's youth - and leaving our country not just broken but broke. ... Read more

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Jilted indeed
The energy in this book is phenomenal.The graphs and hard data are enlivened by a compelling narrative style. The book has already generated debate even though it's just come out because its promoters have pre-populated Twitter and Facebook with dialog about the issuesand created buzz and awareness fully utilizing all modern media options for publicity. It's tempting to argue w/ the premise based on the American experience but to fully appreciate this book one needs to realize how different the expectations are for those growing up in a more socialized environment where certain privileges are seen as entitlements. I think this book will generate a lot of very valuable discussion and I greatly enjoyed reading it. I hope it is a success in the US as well as in the UK since our young people share a lot of these concerns even if government structures are different. Anyone under 30 who has borrowed heavily for a graduate education only to find themselves selling shoes at Nordstrom's will relate to this book. ... Read more