Youth Gangs, Racism, And Schooling: Vietnamese American Youth In A Postcolonial Context (Postcolonial Studies In Education)

Winner of the American Educational Studies Association 2016 Critics' Choice Book Award Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling examines the formation of Vietnamese American youth gangs in Southern California. Lam addresses the particularities of racism, violence, and schooling in an era of anti-youth legislation and frames gang members as post-colonial subjects, offering an alternative analysis toward humanization and decolonization.

• | Author: Kevin D. Lam
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 202 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137475587
• | ISBN-13: 9781137475589