Abstract
This article examines how a group of Latino youth living in the Southeast experienced, adapted to, and resisted oppressive social structures within their community through their involvement with youth media. Through the content analysis of a teen radio show produced by and for Latino youth, in conjunction with semistructured interviews and ethnographic field notes, the author investigates how five Mexican-born high school students confronted and attempted to transform the educational practices that served to keep them subordinate. The study posits the community organization that sponsored the radio show as a pedagogical site of resistance and transformation, which provided the students with an understanding of the importance of civic engagement and agency in the fight for the passage of the Dream Act.
Response to this Article
Edmund T. Hamann, The Changing Challenges of Transformational Resistance
Recommended Citation
Petrone, E. A.
(2016).
Building the Dream: Transformational Resistance, Community-Based Organizations, and the Civic Engagement of Latinos in the New South.
Democracy and Education,
24
(1), Article 4.
Available at:
https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol24/iss1/4