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    Let me just start off with saying...holy cow 🙆 totally mind blown 💣💥with soooo much knowledge from this article. The New Terrain in Youth Development: The Promise of a Social Justice Approach by Shawn Ginwright and Julio Cammarota article is a  well written, the authors broke down the social justice approach. Honestly, this has been one of the first readings that I did not want to keep eyes off of. The authors start off speaking on the topic of  Positive Youth Development; discussing how this method is not correct fit for urban youth. This method was implemented in the early 1990s, it was meant to fix the youth, that they were the problem. Even though PYD emphasized developing young people through skill and asset build this does not help the development of urban youth. This was created based on a dominate cultural frame such as white youth. Also, this turns a blinds eye towards the social, economic and political views. The way I view Positive Youth Development

PYD=OPPRESSION

    Quoting Ginwright and Cammarota "Consequently, we are left with an over-romanticized, problem-free view of youth." (P.84) I picked this quote in particular because the phrase over romanticized is a great way  to put PYD into this category. 

    Social Justice Youth Development (SJYD) approach focuses on two elements which are critical consciousness and social action. 

👈This map outlines SJYD approach. I view SJYD as a building 🏢. Under Social Justice Youth Development is critical consciousness and social action (ability to act) this is the frame of the building 🖾 with these two elements being put together this forms praxis: reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it. This all ties into the framework of the building. The self awareness, social awareness and global awareness fall under critical consciousness, the foundation. With the foundation and the framework this supports the building in other words it causes HEALING and that is the goal of SJYD. 

    I agree with the authors, this ideology is not a great fit for the urban youth community. African American and Latinos have a deeper background, not many come from a "white picked fence" household. Physical and Social toxins are mentioned in the article, in order to understand the youth behavior one must study the cause of the behavior. 

Context from the article: "Young people’s choices are bound up by complex relationships between peers, family, school, and work, as well as with the political and economic resources available to them (Wyn and White, 1997). James Garbarino (1995: 61) argued that the presence of violence and poverty in urban communities generates “social toxins..., a term used to represent the degree to which the social world has become poisonous to a person’s well-being.” Drawing from environmentalists who have identified environmental toxins such as lead paint, found in older homes and building, pesticides in our soil, or poor air quality from local refineries, Garbarino identifies social equivalents to physical toxins." (P.85-86)

-The authors state that these toxins lead to "apathy, fatalism, and self-destructive behaviors." (P.86)-

The YouTube video How Can We Win speech by Kimberly Jones is the perfect representation of toxins. 

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    I remember when BLM movement began and there were people including people of color (wealthy) speaking "how can the looters destroy our town, they are making us look bad" I would argue there is a reason for it they are taking this opportunity to get back what they need for survival. I loved the monopoly reference, that is the perfect indication of how the system is run.