1. Community-Based Youth Work in Uncertain Times
2. "The EE Family:" Framing Race, Youth, and Educational
Possibilities
3. "We're Not Saving Anybody:" Refusing Deficit Narratives
4. "Expanding EE's Footprint": Navigating Organizational Change
5. "The Family Is Dead": Corporatizing After-School
6. "It Was Never Ours": Race and the Politics of Control
Conclusion: Reclaiming Community-Based Youth Work in the Neoliberal
Era
Bianca J. Baldridge is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"A compelling analysis of community-based youth service programs
and how their ability to respond to community needs has been
impaired by the narrow 'reform' agenda sweeping the country.
Baldridge is a keen observer and her insights will help parents,
educators, and activists in other communities understand why their
work may not be supported by powerful elites, and what they can do
about it."—Pedro A. Noguera, Distinguished Professor of Education,
UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
"The movement across America to adopt a Wall Street-like focus on
'return on investments' (ROI) to measure the impact of after-school
programs is a big mistake. Bianca Baldridge offers a brilliant and
timely alternative to metric-driven services; her research provides
a refreshing and illuminating vision of how those who support youth
of color can create more holistic alternatives to youth
programming."—Shawn Ginwright, Professor of Education and African
American Studies, San Francisco State University
"Through her detailed accounts, [Baldridge] demonstrates the
negative effects of a program overtaken by racist and paternalistic
leadership and makes a strong case for the importance of culturally
respectful leadership in driving the success of any program. Clear
connections are drawn from this particular after-school program to
the larger public-school educational environment, in which a
business mindset has forced accountability at the loss of
children's sociocultural and emotional learning....Baldridge's
careful and detailed work provides a much-needed viewpoint into a
critical source of learning and empowerment for children of color.
Recommended."—K. N. Reed, CHOICE
"Baldridge's powerful and sophisticated work urges us to continue
to focus on theorizing the relationship between community-based
youth work and schooling. Reclaiming Community is an urgent read
for educational organizers and leaders, education scholars from all
disciplines, social movement scholars, and organization
scholars."—Ranita Ray, American Journal of Sociology
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