Youth Today
All posts tagged "Race/Ethnicity"
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Youth Work’s Immigration Movement
By Ed Finkel The Boys & Girls Club of West Georgia, after witnessing a 30 percent increase in Latino participants in three...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
The Jena Six and the Big Picture
The case of the “Jena Six” in Louisiana has drawn public attention to the disproportionate treatment of racial groups in juvenile justice...
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Guest Opinion Essay
The New Black-on-Black Racism
When it comes to slurring young African-Americans as promiscuous, violent, and stupid, influential African-American leaders and commentators make radio clown Don Imus...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
What About Hip-Hop?
New Youth Connections, New York The firing of radio personality Don Imus for referring to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team as...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Words Can Hurt in Any Language
New Youth Connections, New York When I heard that radio host Don Imus had used the terms “nappy-headed ho’s” to refer to...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Immigration Raids Protested
While most of the child welfare field stays mum about the havoc sometimes created for youth and youth-serving agencies when adults are...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Deportations Strand Young U.S. Citizens
The Chicago Tribune Since the deportation of their mother last year as a “criminal alien,” 22-year-old University of Texas senior Luissana Santibanez...
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News
Identifying Immigrant Families Involved with Child Welfare Systems
The Urban Institute More than one-fifth of all U.S. children have at least one immigrant parent, according to figures from the Urban...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Changes
CRU Institute 30 minutes. $95. “I want to do something with my life. That has nothing to do with me being black,”...
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News
ICE’d Out
Crackdowns on Illegal Immigrants: Administrative arrests by fiscal year As federal immigration authorities raided a New Bedford, Mass., manufacturing plant in March,...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
American-Born Children of Illegal Immigrants Face Difficult Decision When Parents Deported
The San Diego Union-Tribune Many of the 18,000 adults deported since June under an initiative of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
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News
The State of Black America 2007: Portrait of the Black Male
National Urban League This year’s annual Equality Index – a statistical measurement of disparities between blacks and whites in the areas of...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Coloring Outside the Lines
New Youth Connections, New York (All names have been changed.) I didn’t think much about race until seventh grade, when I...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Evidence of a Darker Reality: The Black Youth Project
Six in 10 African-American youth believe “it is hard for young black people to get ahead because they face so much discrimination,”...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Tribal Justice and Safety in Indian Country
http://www.usdoj.gov/tribaljusticeandsafety This new U.S. Office of Justice Programs (OJP) site provides information about courts, corrections, law enforcement, crime statistics, crime prevention, and...
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Book Reviews
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America
By Juan WilliamsRandom House256 pages; $25 You might not be able to judge a book by its cover, but you can sometimes...
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News
Report Roundup for June 2006
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
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Guest Opinion Essay
Race, Class, Culture And Perceived Entitlements
Bear with me. I’m trying to make sense of a series of writings spread before me that speak to how race, class...
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News
Youth Development’s Racial Challenge
Chicago The Southwest Youth Collaborative is housed in a corner building covered by graffiti murals and perched at the junction of several...
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News
Report Roundup for June 2005
A compilation of the reports from this issue.
