Growing Up Latinx – Coming of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship Fernández

Growing Up LatinxComing of Age in a Time of Contested Citizenship\nAuthor(s): Jesica Siham Fernndez\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479801213, 978-1479801213\nSynopsis\nWinner, Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section on Children and Youth, given by the American Sociological Association\n Finalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems\n Latinx children navigating identity, citizenship, and belonging in a divided America \n An estimated sixty million people in the United States are of Latinx descent, with youth under the age of eighteen making up two-thirds of this swiftly growing demographic. In Growing Up Latinx, Jesica Siham Fernndez explores the lives of Latinx youth as they grapple with their social and political identities from an early age, and pursue a sense of belonging in their schools and communities as they face an incr.