scholarly journals Silence is Not an Option: Oral History of Race in Youth Development Through the Words of Esteemed Black Scholars

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 9-40
Author(s):  
Keshia L. Harris ◽  
Corliss Outley
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Children Of Color ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Michael Cunningham ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Narratives ◽  
The Impact ◽  
History Of Race

The study of race has been silenced in many areas of science including youth development research. We present this commentary in response to an invitation to address the impact of racism on the field of youth development for the Journal of Youth Development. Through oral history narratives, the paper synthesizes an antiracist agenda from the perspectives of 6 Black scholars: Tabbye Chavous, Michael Cunningham, Davido Dupree, Leoandra Onnie Rogers, Stephanie Rowley, and Robert Sellers. The narratives depict each scholar’s perspective on race research that informs youth-serving programs and the study of race in research of children and adolescents, particularly Black children. We selected scholars based on their commitment to supporting research that helps children of color thrive, and who have in-depth knowledge about racist ideologies and practices that have persisted since the inception of the science of youth development. Each scholar offered thoughtful critiques regarding racially biased measures and methodologies, the problematic use of deficit-oriented language, and the challenges that scholars of color encounter with advancing in the field. While the scholars expressed a consensus that the field has struggled to name racism in research and practice, they share hope in the complexity of future race research and practice that centers culture and context in youth development studies and programs.

Integrating Ideas into Policy-Making Analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 1054-1076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Bleich
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Policy Frames ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
History Of Race ◽  
Cross National

This article argues that systematically integrating ideas into policy-making analysis greatly enhances our understanding of policy outcomes. Variables emphasized by other schools of thought—such as power, interests, institutions, and problems—often provide an inadequate explanation of policy choices. To demonstrate the contribution of ideas to policy-making analysis, this article examines the impact of policy frames, showing how they help actors define their interests, generate interpretations of pressing problems, and constrain actions. Retracing the history of race policy development in Britain and France reveals that each country's frames influenced domestic policy outcomes and thus played a vital role in explaining cross-national race policy differences.

The Development of the Underclass

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marne L. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Local Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Impact ◽  
History Of Race

Chapter 4, “The Development of the Underclass,” contextualizes the history of race in Los Angeles within the history of the American West (1870 – 1900). It explores how local white Angelenos combated notions of criminality and attempted to portray Los Angeles as atypical compared to other western American centers, hoping to pin its social ills on the small racialized communities (black Latino/a, and Chinese) that they were actively trying to segregate and minimize. It also explores California’s legal history, and examines the impact of federal, state, and local legislation on the communities of racialized minorities, particularly African American, Native American, and Chinese people. This chapter also examines the role of the local media in shaping mainstream attitudes towards local people of color.

scholarly journals How Do Family Historians Work with Memory?

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Tanya Evans
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Oral History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
The Family ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Everyday Knowledge

Drawing on survey data and oral history interviews undertaken with family historians in Australia,England, and Canada this article will explore how family historians construct memories using diverse sources in their research. It will show how they utilize oral history, archival documents, material culture, and explorations of space to construct and reconstruct family stories and to make meaning of the past, inserting their familial microhistories into global macrohistories. It will ask whether they undertake critical readings of these sources when piecing together their families’ stories and reveal the impact of that work on individual subjectivities, the construction of historical consciousness, and the broader social value of family history scholarship. How might family historians join with social historians of the family to reshape our scholarly and “everyday” knowledge of the history of the family in the twenty-first century?

scholarly journals “The pitch itself was no man's land:” Siege, Željezničar Sarajevo Football Club and the Grbavica Stadium

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 877-903
Author(s):  
Richard Mills
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Photographic Evidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Hague ◽  
No Man's Land ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Football Stadium

Inspired by microhistory, this essay explores the wartime plight of a football stadium and the multi-ethnic club that called it home as a means of understanding Bosnia and Herzegovina's descent into conflict, the siege of Sarajevo, and the impact upon civilians. Like the suburb of the same name, Grbavica became part of the frontline during the siege. Deprived of its home, FK Željezničar continued to function, while players, staff, and supporters longed for a return to the shattered ground. At a local level, the organization offers a means of visualizing the development of the Grbavica suburb, from its socialist foundations to its post-Dayton reintegration. In this way, the life of the stadium and those who frequent it map onto the history of Yugoslavia, its dissolution, and the independent republic that emerged in its wake. Moreover, the wartime partition of the stadium, the club, and its supporters’ group – all of which were claimed by actors on both sides of the frontline – were representative of political developments in a state where the ethnic balance was forcibly reengineered. This reconstruction of Grbavica's war harnesses original photographic evidence, oral history, maps, contemporary journalism, and the transcripts of the Hague Tribunal.

Report Analysis: The Impact of Head Start

1970 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall Smith ◽  
Joan Bissell
Keyword(s):  
Head Start ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
History Of ◽  
Report Analysis ◽  
Sampling Procedures ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The Westinghouse-Ohio national evaluation of Head Start evoked criticism from both social scientists and statisticians when it was issued last Spring. The authors present a history of Head Start and of the national evaluation. They raise serious questions about the sampling procedures used in the study, and they present the results of a re-analysis which suggest that some full-year Head Start centers were effective, particularly those with black children in urban areas. Policy implications discussed by the authors focus on the relationship between program evaluation and public policy.

scholarly journals What Will Summer Look Like? Summer Learning Loss and COVID-19 Learning Gaps

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Matthew Boulay ◽  
Elizabeth McChesney
Keyword(s):  
Black Children ◽  
Summer Learning Loss ◽  
Learning Loss ◽  
Children Of Color ◽  
Summer Learning ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Remote Learning

Summer 2021 will likely look much different than previous summers due to the impact of the now more than one-year-long pandemic.Here we share research about summer learning loss and overlap that with emerging studies illustrating how COVID-19 closures and remote learning have compounded learning loss, all of which disproportionately impacts Black children, indigenous children, children of color, and all children who live in poverty.

In Search of Victor: Transnationalism, Emotion, and War

Total War ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 157-176
Author(s):  
Joy Damousi
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
History Of ◽  
War Experience ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second World ◽  
Over Time

In October 1949, in the closing month of the Greek Civil War, a young soldier named Pandelis Klinkatsis was killed stepping on a landmine in Northern Greece. Pandelis was my uncle. The announcement of his death devastated his immediate family including my mother Sophia. I focus this chapter on the individual story of the loss of my uncle and my mother’s grief to cast a wider canvas on the emotions of war and their enduring legacies. This story explores the repercussions of war such as migration, the impact on sibling and romantic love, absence and separation during and after war. It examines the implications of these displacements in writing an emotional history of war. Such a history is typically conveyed through oral storytelling, and oral history forms the basis of the narrative. But there are two other ways in which the memory and emotion of war experience are kept alive in a transnational world. The first expression is in the form of photography, the second is the role grave sites play in the nexus between mourning and memory over time. Pandelis’s story takes us to Greece, Austria, America, and Australia. I argue that it encapsulates the complex geographical and emotional fragments created by war, which are manifest in love and death, mourning and memory, in a transnational context across four countries. Both the Second World War and the Greek Civil War created a landscape of emotions—the legacies of which are indelible—and continue to the present day.

The Man Behind the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model: A Life History of Don Hellison

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenn M. Jacobs ◽  
Thomas Templin
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The United States ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal And Social Responsibility ◽  
Responsibility Model ◽  
The Impact

Don Hellison was a legend in the field of physical education and youth development and the impact he made throughout his life is immeasurable. This contribution to the monograph cannot begin to illustrate the totality of Don’s achievements throughout his life and academic career. It provides a life history of Hellison across three phases: the lone ranger, trailblazer, and icon phases that aligned with various periods and events in his life and in the United States and the world. It concludes with a statement of gratitude to Hellison for the many gifts he gave to urban youth, his students, colleagues, and importantly to his family and friends. His legacy will live on for a very long time.

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