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Runaway Youth

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 252


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During the 1960s and 1970s, the issue of runaways became a source of national concern. This text examines the programmes and policies that took shape during this period and the ways in which the ideas of the alternative services movement continue to guide our responses to at-risk youth.
How the drug war transformed American political culture Since the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilitation instead of incarceration whenever they break the law. The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians, the media, and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing and incarcerating urban minorities, and how a troubling legacy of racial injustice continues to inform the war on drugs today. In this incisive political history, Matthew Lassiter shows how the category of the “white middle-class victim” has been as central to the politics and culture of the drug war as racial stereotypes like the “foreign trafficker,” “urban pusher,” and “predatory ghetto addict.” He describes how the futile mission to safeguard and control white suburban youth shaped the enactment of the nation’s first mandatory-minimum drug laws in the 1950s, and how soaring marijuana arrests of white Americans led to demands to refocus on “real criminals” in inner cities. The 1980s brought “just say no” moralizing in the white suburbs and militarized crackdowns in urban centers. The Suburban Crisis reveals how the escalating drug war merged punitive law enforcement and coercive public health into a discriminatory system for the social control of teenagers and young adults, and how liberal and conservative lawmakers alike pursued an agenda of racialized criminalization.
Discusses some of the reasons young people run away from home, the methods they use to survive away from home, where they can turn for help, and some solutions to the underlying problems. Includes lists by State and city of Travelers Aid locations, hotlines, and halfway houses.
"Stephen Vider considers how the meanings of domesticity shifted for gay men and lesbians from the late 1960s to early 1980s, from a site of supposed isolation or deviance, to a source of identity, community, and pleasure. His manuscript reveals the multiple uses, appeals, and limits of domesticity for LGBTQ people in the post-World War II period, in their efforts to make social and sexual connections, and to appeal for expanded rights and freedoms. For example, the 1970s witnessed an efflorescence of gay communal households that proved to be seedbeds for alternative modes of domesticity, using the privacy of domestic space to achieve broader social and political changes. Vider brings a novel perspective to gay identity and culture, examining domesticity as a meeting point between practices and discourse, the local and national, the private and the public"--
Jim Huckleberry tells the story of an enslaved man who escapes to freedom through harrowing adventures along the Mississippi river with a young white runaway named Huck Finn. Branching from Mark Twain's original work, some of the action reimagines what occurs in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but most of what happens reflect the thoughts and experiences of the central character, Jim. From Jim's brief impulse to kill Huck to protect himself against betrayal, to thoughts of rescuing his family to the young black nation of Haiti, to his final act of taking the name Huckleberry as a root of his new legacy, Jim Huckleberry gives Jim depth from the margins of Twain's work. Jim longs for his wife, pines for his children, contemplates the nature of God, and considers the specter of whiteness. Huck is Jim's help out of slavery, but becomes his comrade on the journey from captive to free man, from being branded "slave" to choosing a surname and hope for a legacy. The story is filtered through Jim's lyrical, poetic voice, which serves as a foil to the exaggerated dialect that, arguably, stains Twain's original story. Jim Huckleberry is a literary work of rhymed, rhythmic prose anchored in the American literary canon as it reaches for an alternate history of present day black/white race dynamics.