Well, What Do the Young People Think? An Introduction to YouthCrit

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Abstract

Racially minoritized young people historically hold a precarious relationship with their perception within schooling spaces and the greater society. Often, these young people navigate predatory structures that unintentionally penalize their humanity. This paper builds on previous Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholarship by introducing a theoretical framework, Youth-centric Critical Race Theory (YouthCrit), that explicitly examines the intersection of adultism and racism that racially minoritized youth navigate. We leverage scholarship from bodies of knowledge such as legal and education CRT scholars (Delgado & Stefancic, 2023), critical youth studies (Bertrand, 2016), student voice (Lac & Mansfield, 2018), youth participatory action research (Kirshner, 2010), and the out of school time field (Baldridge et al., 2017) for this framework’s cultivation.

Authors

• CJ Greer, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Anjalé D. Welton, University of Wisconsin - Madison