"The best of both worlds": Youth poetry as social critique and form of empowerment

Beyond Resistance!: Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 129-148

  Jocson, Korina M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203961001     Document Type: Chapter

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