Structural Racism

Posted by Khadijah Ali-Coleman Oct 26, 2006

I encourage all youth workers to become familiar with the concept of structural racism and its impact on how it affects those of us who work with urban youth who typically are deemed "at-risk".

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I will focus a future article on this topic. As the report states,

"As youth development and youth organizing practitioners and thinkers engage in this dialogue, much more attention and reflection must be directed toward the question of how to strike an effective balance between providing individual support and promoting youth leadership in social change."