“What are you Representing?” Contesting Identities of Incarcerated Youth |
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| Authors: | Joby Gardner |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Leadership in Education, Language, and Human Service, School of Education, DePaul University, 2320 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago, IL 60614-3250, USA |
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| Abstract: | This article explores how incarcerated youth and adult supervisors contest claims to identity via language of “representing”.
Comparing how youth and adults “represent” in discussions of their own past and future selves sheds light on the constrained
universe of discourse within which both groups work to express identities and on the basis of which we counsel, mentor, and
educate young people. Acknowledging these constraints can contribute to understanding what I call exceptionalism—the idea that only exceptional poor and raced young men, through great personal effort and sacrifice, may resist the lure
of the “street”. I conclude by discussing implications of this work for education and youth development work both inside and
beyond the juvenile justice system as well as for research across lines of difference by committed “outsiders”.
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| Keywords: | Identity contests Incarcerated youth Adult/youth discourse Exceptionalism |
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