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Black enough : stories of being young & black in America
A collection of short stories explore what it is like to be young and black, centering on the experiences of black teenagers and emphasizing that one person's experiences, reality, and personal identity are different than someone else.
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Homophobic and Transphobic Bullying: Impacts on the Mental and Physical Health of Queer Black Adolescents in Kacen Callender's Young Adult Fiction
This paper examines how homophobic bullying profoundly impacts the mental and physical health of Black queer children, with a particular focus on the rising suicide rate within this marginalized community. Analysing the representation of homophobic and transphobic bullying in Kacen Callender's young adult fiction, this study explores the devastating impact of both verbal and nonverbal forms of abuse, including rejection, intimidation, and social isolation. These negative experiences contribute to long-term emotional distress, leading to an increased vulnerability to anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. Meyer's minority stress theory is used to examine how systematic ignorance and rejection of queerness render Black queer children more vulnerable, resulting in insecurity, psychological anguish, and marginalization. This analysis underscores the importance of positive interactions with peers and a safe environment to lessen the damage of bullying. Studies show that having inclusive spaces in schools, communities, or families can foster resilience and higher self-esteem in Black queer adolescents. Supportive networks offer validation, emotional safety, and a sense of belonging, helping to mitigate the impact of discrimination. Based on these findings, this paper highlights a need for comprehensive antibullying policies and implementation, increased education and awareness campaigns, and an inclusive education system that embraces diversity. By prioritizing these actions, societies can create equitable opportunities for well-being and development, ensuring that all children, regardless of their racial, gender, or sexual identity, have the right to grow up in a world free from fear and discrimination.
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There goes the neighborhood
\"In order to stop the destructive forces of gentrification, three best friends use social media to create a fake gang and get justice for their South L.A. community\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adolescent African American Girls as Engaged Readers: Challenging Stereotypical Images of Black Womanhood through Urban Fiction
This article explores the ways some adolescent African American girls engage with urban fiction, a genre often maligned as “trash” literature. This project sought to understand the appeal of the genre as well as adolescent African American girls’ perceptions about the texts. Based on findings, which suggest that participants are engaging with the genre in critical ways, conclusions may support non-traditional approaches to helping adolescent Africa American girls deconstruct and challenge stereotypic and dominant messages about the underrepresented lives of African Americans.
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Gamerville
In Johnnie Christmas's newest offering, a video gamer's championship aspirations are dashed when his parents send him to Camp Refresh, a summer camp where electronics are forbidden and you're forced to socialize, eat healthy, and spend time outside. Gamerville is a timely and vulnerable exploration of the importance of human connection and what it means to run in a pack.
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Orienting African American Male Adolescents toward Meaningful Literacy Exchanges with Texts
Drawing from a sociohistorical understanding of the roles of texts for African American males and data from a recent survey of teens' meaningful experiences with texts, the author provides a general understanding of the roles of texts among African American males and African American male adolescents' meaningful relationships with texts. These understandings are necessary for re-orienting these young males toward meaningful literacy exchanges with fiction and nonfiction texts with socioemotional and cognitive orientations. Implications for shaping more responsive textual pathways for struggling and non-struggling readers are offered.
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Chicago Tribune Nina Metz column
Both Essanay (founded by George Spoor and Gilbert Anderson, the \"S\" and \"A\" of the company's name) and Selig Polyscope (launched by Col. William Selig) were members of Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Co., which comprised nine studios and was conceived as a monopoly. Because the independents were basically the ones who wound up founding Hollywood.\"
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Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy Sinners and Delinquent Deviants
Turning to the representation of sexual abuse in adolescent fiction, Kokkola's sixth chapter notes the prior absence of a discussion of race in rela- tion to teen sexuality, an absence that becomes prominent in depictions of abused youth: \"The few examples of sexually active Black adolescents in the corpus cluster around depictions of abjection, unwanted pregnan- cies, violence, sexual abuse and the total loss of subjectivity associated with invisibility\" (174). Kokkola's focus on sexually abused teens allows her to indicate the social inconsistencies in concep- tions of teen sexuality when readers or writers desire abuse victims to recover by story's end: \"[T]hese novels about abuse encourage adolescents to take on the duties and accountability of adulthood without being offered the [sexual] freedoms and privileges\" (205).
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