The Promise of Youth Anti-Citizenship: Race and Revolt in Education

Kevin L. Clay · Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr.

May 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn and Patryce Williams

About this audiobook

When inclusion into the fold of citizenship is conditioned by a social group's conceit to ritual violence, humiliation, and exploitation, what can anti-citizenship offer us? The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship argues that Black youth and youth of color have been cast as anti-citizens, disenfranchised from the social, political, and economic mainstream of American life. Instead of asking youth to conform to a larger societal structure undergirded by racial capitalism and antiblackness, the volume's contributors propose that the collective practice of anti-citizenship opens up a liberatory space for youth to challenge the social order. The chapters cover an array of topics, including Black youth in the charter school experiment in post-Katrina New Orleans; racial capitalism, the queering of ethnicity, and the 1980s Salvadoran migration to South Central Los Angeles; the notion of decolonizing classrooms through Palestinian liberation narratives; and more. Through a range of methodological approaches and conceptual interventions, this collection illuminates how youth negotiate and exercise anti-citizenship as forms of either resistance or refusal in response to coercive patriotism, cultural imperialism, and predatory capitalism.

About the author

Bill Andrew Quinn, a nationally recognized commercial and promo voice actor, has been narrating audiobooks since 1993. When not behind the microphone, Bill can be found doing research for his radio show The Bill Andrew Quinn Radio Hour X2, watching his beloved St. Louis Cardinals on the MLB Network, or sampling craft beer.

Patryce Williams is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City and is a member of the Actors' Equity Association. With a BFA in theater from Central Connecticut State University, Patryce has toured in regional theater productions and appeared on world-renowned stages such as the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.

Kevin L. Clay is assistant professor of Black studies in education at Rutgers University.

Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr. is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.