{"product_id":"at-risk-black-youth-and-the-creative-imperative-in-the-post-civil-rights-era-9781496841711","title":"At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jennifer Griffiths\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Children's \u0026amp; Young Adult Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Griffiths's \u003ci\u003eAt Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era \u003c\/i\u003efocuses 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book looks at crucial works beginning in 1968, ranging from Sapphire's \u003ci\u003ePush\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Kid\u003c\/i\u003e, Walter Dean Myers's \u003ci\u003eMonster\u003c\/i\u003e, and Dael Orlandersmith's\u003ci\u003e The Gimmick\u003c\/i\u003e, to Bill Gunn's \u003ci\u003eJohnnas. \u003c\/i\u003eEach 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimately, \u003ci\u003eAt Risk \u003c\/i\u003econsiders 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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46448123052183,"sku":"9781496841711","price":3447.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781496841711.webp?v=1769142789","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/at-risk-black-youth-and-the-creative-imperative-in-the-post-civil-rights-era-9781496841711","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}