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At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era

At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Griffiths, Jennifer

Paperback

Series: Cultures of Childhood

Literary CriticismBlack American StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1496841719
ISBN13: 9781496841711
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Dec 13 2022
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Jennifer Griffiths's At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era focuses on literary representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to intervene against the stereotypes that threaten to limit their horizons. The authors of the analyzed works capture and convey the complex experience of the generation of young people growing up in the era after the civil rights movement. Through creative experiments, they carefully consider what it means to be narrowed within the scope of a sociological problem, all while trying to expand the perspective of creative liberation. In short, they explore what it means to be deemed an at risk youth.

This book looks at crucial works beginning in 1968, ranging from Sapphire's Push and The Kid, Walter Dean Myers's Monster, and Dael Orlandersmith's The Gimmick, to Bill Gunn's Johnnas. Each text offers unique representations of Black gifted children, whose creative processes help them to navigate simultaneous hypervisibility and invisibility as racialized subjects. The book addresses the ways that adolescents experience the perilous at risk label, which threatens to narrow adolescent existence at a developmental moment that requires an orientation toward possibility and a freedom to experiment.

Ultimately, At Risk considers the distinct possibilities and challenges of the post-civil rights era, and how the period allows for a more honest, multilayered, and forthright depiction of Black youth subjectivity against the adultification that forecloses potential.

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