Jacked Up and Unjust: Pacific is lander Teens Confront Violent Legacies
Katherine Irwin and Karen Umemoto
Abstract
Based on a nine years of ethnographic research, the authors examine multiple inequalities that underscore youth violence. They feature the experiences of inner city as well as rural girls and boys in Hawai‘i who face racism, sexism, poverty, and political neglect in the context of two hundred years of American colonial control in the Pacific. The authors highlight how legacies injustice endure as challenges in the present, prompting teens to fight for dignity and the chance to thrive in America – a nation that the youth described as inherently “jacked up” and “unjust.” While the story begins w ... More
Keywords: Youth Violence, Adolescence, Criminology, Ethnography, Critical Youth Studies, Punishment, Gender, Race and Class, Colonialism, Patriarchy, Intersecting Inequalities, Youth Resilience, Colonial Criminology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520283022 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520283022.001.0001 |
