15.058 - Gangs, Schools, and Communities: How Marginalized Youth Navigate Complex Relationships

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Abstract: Nationally, gang-associated youth are 30 percent less likely to complete high school compared to their non-gang peers (Pyrooz, 2014). The decreased educational attainment for this sub-group is influenced by the social and academic conditions in classrooms, schools, communities. This symposium seeks to highlight how there needs to be a focus on gangs and schools. The first paper focuses on a gang intervention program can re-engage gang youth to become active members of their community. Secondly, how the “sorting” of youth believed to be gang members influences how educators and law enforcement treat and marginalize this group. The third paper highlights the written narratives of gang-associated youth and the positive recommendations to their younger male family members.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research

Chair

• Adrian H. Huerta, University of Southern California

Papers

• Pedagogy of the Suppressed: Culturally Relevant Education as Intervention - Mario Gerardo Galicia, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Sorted on the Outs: Carceral Spillover and Gang Labeling - patrick lopez-aguado, Santa Clara University

• "Trust Me": Latino Male Gang Youths' Letters to Their Younger Peers - Adrian H. Huerta, University of Southern California

Discussant

• Desmond Upton Patton, University of Chicago