At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era

by Jennifer Griffiths

Book Overview

Jennifer Griffiths's At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post-Civil Rights Era focuses on literary representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to intervene against the stereotypes that threaten to limit their horizons. The authors of the analyzed works capture and convey the complex experience of the generation of young people growing up in the era after the civil rights movement. Through creative experiments,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496841719
• ISBN13: 9781496841711
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"