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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer GriffithsPublisher: University Press of Mississippi Imprint: University Press of Mississippi Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9781496841711ISBN 10: 1496841719 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 28 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAt Risk is important activist criticism that both seeks equity and justice for the most vulnerable Black lives and highlights Black youth subjectivity, resilience, and possibility.--Maria Rice Bellamy, author of Bridges to Memory: Postmemory in Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction Author InformationJennifer Griffiths is professor of English at New York Institute of Technology. She is author of Traumatic Possessions: The Body and Memory in African American Women's Writing and Performance. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |