204 - Section on Race, Gender, and Class Paper Session. Youth, Safety, and the Street

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

In the wake of the violent deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, and Hadiya Pendleton, among other young people of color whose violent deaths have not made the national news cycle, this session examines how race, gender, sexuality, and class shape young people’s exposure to various forms of aggression and violence in public space. We seek papers that examine how this violence is organized. For example, how do neighborhood and school policies and practices, law and legislation, and the workings of civic and community organizations shape young people’s exposure to surveillance, harassment, and violence? We also invite papers that consider how young people organize in response to such surveillance.

Sub Unit

• Section on Race, Gender, and Class / Youth, Safety, and the Street

Session Organizer

• Saida Grundy, University of Michigan

Individual Presentations

• Suspicious Person or Neighbor? Heightened Surveillance of Black Men On a Predominantly White Neighborhood Listserv - Maria R. Lowe, Southwestern University; Angela Stroud, Northland College; Alice Nguyen, Southwestern University

• Strategies of Resistance: Preventing Violence Against Young Transgender Women of Color - Elizabeth Nagel, State University of New York-Stony Brook

• I Never Thought it Would Happen Here: White Privilege and Assumptions of Safety - Kay Sarai Varela, Texas A&M University