Hava Rachel Gordon
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Denver
About Me
I specialize in the social construction of inequalities such as gender, race, class and age; social movements; schooling and education reform politics in the context of neoliberalism; and qualitative research methods. My previous research explored how multiple social inequalities shape youth political movements, and is the subject of my book, We Fight to Win: Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism (Rutgers University Press), as well as journal articles. My current research focuses on community struggles over urban school reform, and is the subject of my new book This is Our School! Race and Community Resistance to School Reform (NYU Press).
youth activism, intersectionality, neoliberalism, educational justice
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Selected Publications
Gordon, Hava Rachel. 2021. This is Our School! Race and Community Resistance to School Reform. New York: NYU Press.
Gordon, Hava Rachel. 2017. “Breaking Through and Burning Out: The Contradictory Effects of Young Peoples’ Participation in Institutionalized Movements.” Special issue on Social Movements and Media. Emerald Studies in Media and Communication Vol. 15: 149-176
Gordon, Hava Rachel. 2010. We Fight to Win: Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Taft, Jessica K. and Hava Rachel Gordon. 2013. “Youth Activists, Youth Councils, and Constrained Democracy.” Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 8 (1): 87-100.
Gordon, Hava R. and Jessica K. Taft. 2011. “Rethinking Youth Political Socialization: Teenage Activists Talk Back.” Youth & Society 43 (4): 1499-1527 (published online before print on October 25, 2010)
Gordon, Hava Rachel. 2008. “Gendered Paths to Teenage Political Participation: Parental Power, Civic Mobility, and Youth Activism.” Gender & Society 22 (1): 31-55.
Gordon, Hava Rachel. 2007. “Allies Within and Without: How Adolescent Activists Conceptualize Ageism and Navigate Adult Power in Youth Social Movements.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 36 (6): 631-668.