What Happens in Vegas Does "Not" Stay in Vegas: Youth Leadership in the Immigrant Rights Movement in Las Vegas, 2006

Autor/in	Revilla, Anita Tijerina
Titel	What Happens in Vegas Does "Not" Stay in Vegas: Youth Leadership in the Immigrant Rights Movement in Las Vegas, 2006
Quelle	In: Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 37 (2012) 1, S.87-115 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0005-2604
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; Activism; Hispanic American Students; Action Research; Participatory Research; Youth Leaders; Critical Theory; Race; Ethnicity; Social Status; Cultural Influences; Racial Factors; Interviews; Focus Groups; Longitudinal Studies; Social Change; Social Justice; Racial Discrimination; Sex Fairness; Homosexuality; Social Bias; Foreign Policy; Stranger Reactions; Gender Discrimination; Religious Discrimination; Age Discrimination; Social Attitudes; Social Class; Native Language; Gender Differences; Nevada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Projektforschung; Forschungstätigkeit; Jugendführer; Jugendleiter; Kritische Theorie; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnizität; Sozialer Status; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Sozialer Wandel; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Racial bias; Rassismus; Sexualaufklärung; Homosexualität; Außenpolitik; Fremdenprüfung; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	Students calling themselves the Las Vegas Activist Crew shut down the city's famed Strip on May 1, 2006, with an immigrant rights protest that was one of the largest demonstrations in Nevada's history. This research analyzes the ways that students engage in activism to improve their own social conditions and those of their communities. The theoretical framework for the study is critical race theory and Latina/o critical theory in education, which examine the intersection of race with ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, language, immigration status, culture, and color. Data for this study were collected over five years, starting with the immigrant rights mobilization of 2006 and continuing to the present. A multitiered approach was used, including participatory action research, one-on-one interviews, and focus group interviews. This research reveals the importance of youth leadership and contests deficit thinking about Latina/o students. It supports the notion that advocacy for social transformation, which includes the immigrant rights movement, must be informed by a shared vision of social justice, one that calls for eliminating multiple forms of oppression--including, but not limited to, racism, classism, imperialism, patriarchy, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, citizenism, nativism, xenophobia, religious/spiritual discrimination, body discrimination, ageism, and colorism. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10