Preface

1. Background and History
Defining Youth
-Inventing America, Inventing Youth
-Teenagers, Stereotypes, and Social Inequality
-College Student Activism
-High School Student Activism
Defining Activism
-Civic and Movement Organizations
-School-based Activism
-Internet-based Activism
-Conservative and Right-Wing Youth Activism: Gangs, Subcultures, or Movements?
Youth Activism in Historical and Global Perspective
-Women's Suffrage
-Civil Rights Movement
-Anti-globalization, Arab Spring, and Occupy Movements
-Immigrants' Rights Movements
-Environmental Justice Movements
-Gender and LGBTQIA* Movements
-Labor Movements
Bibliography

2. Problems, Controversies, and Solutions
Debates over Youth Engagement and Apathy
-Apathetic, Misguided, and Temporary: Moral Panics about Young People's Politics
-Youth Civic Engagement Programs
-Youth Councils
Ageism and Youth Activism
-Ageism in Social Movement Networks and Organizations
-Ageism in Interpersonal Relationships
Solutions
-Kids as Teachers and Organizers: Horizontal Political Development
-Socializing Up and Out: Youth as Movement Innovators
-That's Ageist! Recognizing and Interrupting Adultism
Youth Subcultural Resistance and Activism
-Hippies: Utopian Youth Movements
-Punk: Confronting Authority through Style
-Hip Hop Languages: Graffiti and Spoken Word Counterstories
-Hippie, Punk, and Hip-Hop Cultures: Reverberations across Time and Space
Outcomes of Youth Activism
-Biographical Outcomes
-Institutional Impact: Schools and Workplaces
-Law and Policy Outcomes
-Cultural Outcomes
Bibliography

3. Perspectives
Relationships Are Key for Creating Social Change, Charla Agnoletti
Empowering Youth: The Role of Agency in Creative Development Programs, Stephen Smith-Contreras
From Shared Spaces of Appearance to Radical Loneliness: Understanding the Conditions of Youth Relational Agency and Political Action, Cihan Erdal
Researching Youth Activism: Uncovering the Role of Social Class, Jacqueline Kennelly
Healing and Youth Organizing, May Lin

4. Profiles
Individuals
-Ella Baker (1903-1986)
-Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture (1941-1998)
-Vickie Castro (1946- )
-Jasilyn Charger (they/them, 1996- )
-Maxwell Frost (1997-)
-X (formerly Emma) González (they/them, 1999-)
-Tom Hayden (1939-2016)
-Mario Savio (1942-1996)
-Greta Thunberg (2003- )
-Camila Vallejo (1988- )
-Joshua Wong Chi-fung (1996- )
Organizations
-Black Lives Matter
-Extinction Rebellion Youth
-Jobbik
-United Students Against Sweatshops
-Young Americans for Freedom
Bibliography

5. Documents
Port Huron Statement (1962)
El Plan de Santa Barbara (1969)
Woodward Report on Freedom of Expression at Yale (1974)
Jamie Margolin's Congressional Testimony (2019)
Held v. Montana Court Ruling (2023)
Students for Life America Amicus Brief (2024)

6. Resources
Books and Articles
-Biographical Causes and Impacts of Youth Activism
-Civil Rights and Post-Civil Rights Youth Activism
-College Student Activism
-Digital Activism
-Environmental Activism
-Global Justice Activism
-High School Student Activism
-Intergenerational and Generational Politics
-Intersectionality
-Neoliberalism
-Subcultures and Activism
-Youth Civic Engagement and Citizenship Politics
Documentary Films

7. Chronology

Glossary
Index