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Where "Something Catches"
Work, Love, and Identity in Youth

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Victoria I. Munoz - Author

SUNY series, Identities in the Classroom

Price: $53.50
Hardcover - 296 pages

Release Date: October 1995

ISBN10: 0-7914-2685-8
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2685-2

Price: $29.95
Paperback - 296 pages

Release Date: October 1995

ISBN10: 0-7914-2686-6
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2686-9

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Summary

Helps people working with youth think in new ways about the relationships between work, love, and identity and how these interact within the socio-political processes of class, race, gender, and sexuality.

"This book offers stunning insights into the formation of identity. In a language that is at once Munoz's own--even as she acknowledges and extends the languages of others (notably women theorists of color, artists, poets, and photographers)--this study maps that most difficult and vulnerable terrain: identity as cultural, social, historical, and unique. Drawing upon a wide range of diverse and often conflictive theories, Munoz is able to exceed such tensions and do something more than attempt to normalize 'development.' Indeed, the vision of development and identity offered here is one that is respectful, critical, haunting, and insistent upon taking into account the unpredictable, volatile, and accidental combination of the social markers one bears, the histories one lives, the desires one can make, the sociality for which one hopes, the life chances one might take.

"Within this complicated context--beautifully realized--Munoz crafts careful portraits of youth precariously engaged in the process of becoming something more. She achieves a careful tension throughout the text, namely marking identity as both a journey and as a site of fragmentation. In holding this tension, Munoz contributes to a theory of alterity as the condition for identity as a possibility as opposed to identity as a life sentence. She is able to hold onto what she rightly terms, 'the educative work of nourishing' in how she analyzes the lives of particular youth. She offers visions and revisions of the development by juxtaposing with her own, the words of fifty-six youth living in Puerto Rico." -- Deborah P. Britzman, York University

Where "Something Catches:" Work, Love, and Identity in Youth is a qualitative study of Latina and Latino youth. Youths from different regions of Puerto Rico and with a range of interests are interviewed about work, love, community, alternatives, and the support that they have been given. Using an innovative framework, a psychology of identity is explored by incorporating an analysis of the cultural, historical, and political context. The text includes documentary photographs.

Victoria I. Munoz is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wells College. She is also a freelance photographer.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Panel 1: Background/Trasfondo

The Way Things Work

1. The Catch

2. Returning to a Question

Panel 2: "That Particular Combination "

3. Conceptual Strategies

4. Methods

5. The Youths

Panel 3: Profiles Of Work And Love

Prayer for Revolutionary Love

6 Becoming Hombres and Mujeres: Work, Love, and Constructions of Gender

The Journey

7. Getting out of Trouble or Getting What You Want: Work as Independence and Survival for Young Mujeres

8. Since I Was Three: From Childhood Genius to Adult Work

9. From Illness and Suicide to the Work of Art

10. In Uniform: Seguridad as Symbol and Work

Making Peace

11. Peace, Justice, Development: The Complex Workings of Social Change

12. Working Together: Plotting the Coordinates of Work, Love, and Identity

Appendix A: Interview Questions

Appendix B: Introduction to the Volunteer Corps at the Service of Puerto Rico Act

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

Adolescent Studies
Anthropology of Work
Curriculum
Education
Educational Psychology
English Education
Education Policy and Leadership
Ethnography
Identity
Psychology
Social Context of Education
Autobiography, Biography & Memoir

30670/30671(LGP/SG/)