"Cuz They Care about the People Who Goes There": The Multiple Roles of a Community-Based Youth Center in Providing "Youth (Comm)Unity" for Low-Income Chinese American Youth

Autor/in	Wong, Nga-Wing Anjela
Titel	"Cuz They Care about the People Who Goes There": The Multiple Roles of a Community-Based Youth Center in Providing "Youth (Comm)Unity" for Low-Income Chinese American Youth
Quelle	In: Urban Education, 45 (2010) 5, S.708-739 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0042-0859
DOI	10.1177/0042085909355766
Schlagwörter	Role Models; Low Income; Culturally Relevant Education; Youth; Chinese Americans; Immigrants; Adolescent Attitudes; Community Centers; Teaching Methods; Ethnography; Adolescents; Working Class; Caring; Trust (Psychology); Parent Child Relationship; Family Work Relationship; Educational Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Identifikationsfigur; Niedriglohn; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Asian immigrant; Chinese; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; Chinesen; USA; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ethnografie; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Arbeiterklasse; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt
Abstract	This article will explore the role of "CYC," a community-based youth center, in providing a sense of what I call "Youth (Comm)Unity" for Chinese American youth from low-income immigrant families. While CYC combines the youths' home and school worlds, it is also distinct from these worlds by forming a new and hybrid culture/space. In doing so, I argue Youth (Comm)Unity consists of three critical concepts: (a) the Multiple Worlds model developed by Patricia Phelan et al. (1991, 1993, 1998); (b) Angela Valenzuela's "authentic caring" (1999); and (c) similar to Gloria Ladson-Billings's "culturally relevant pedagogy," "culturally relevant" understanding (1994; 1995a; 1995b). Through providing the youth with a sense of Youth (Comm)Unity, CYC is able to offer the following kinds of social and emotional support: sense of trust and caring, sense of ethnic self and identity, sense of home and safe space, serving as role models, and sense of being a teenager. Data for this article is drawn from a larger study based on 15 weeks of ethnographic-based research. As this article illustrates, community-based organizations bridge such gaps for youth from low-income and working-class immigrant families, and Youth (Comm)-Unity is key in order to better serve low-income students of color. (Contains 20 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10