Transformative Youth Activism




Office Hours show

Summary: Doug McAdam [1] chats with Jesse about why Freedom Summer [2] was a transformative experience for those involved and why other youth activism efforts, such as Teach for America, tend to not be as transformative. But first, Sarah shares a discovery [3] about how incarceration shapes racial identity. Download episode #34 now! [4] [1] http://sociology.stanford.edu/people/DougMcAdam/index.html [2] http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Summer-Doug-McAdam/dp/0195064720/ [3] http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.92 [4] http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/download.php.mp3?orig=51511.mp3