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Building better boyhood programs : evaluation of programs funded by the African American Men and Boys Task Force Initiave
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ISBN: 0833093843 9780833093844 Year: 2015 Publisher: Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation,

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Jolly Fellows : Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 1421427966 Year: 2009 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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“Jolly fellows,” a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to those men whose more colorful antics included brawling, heavy drinking, gambling, and playing pranks. Reforms, especially the temperance movement, stigmatized such behavior, but pockets of jolly fellowship continued to flourish throughout the country. Richard Stott scrutinizes and analyzes this behavior to appreciate its origins and meaning. Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control.Even as the number of jolly fellows dwindled, jolly themes flowed into American popular culture through minstrelsy, dime novels, and comic strips. Jolly Fellows proposes a new interpretation of nineteenth-century American culture and society and will inform future work on masculinity during this period.


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Building better boyhood programs : evaluation of programs funded by the African American Men and Boys Task Force Initiative
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ISBN: 0833093614 0833091654 9780833093615 Year: 2015 Publisher: Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation,

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Reparable harm : assessing and addressing disparities faced by boys and men of color in California
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ISBN: 1282033387 9786612033384 0833046756 0833045636 128203345X 9786612033452 0833046861 083304561X 9780833046864 9780833046758 9781282033450 9780833045614 9780833045638 9781282033382 6612033452 Year: 2009 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation,

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The study identifies some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different strategies for reducing the disparities-including effective programs, practices, and policies-that can begin making an important difference in changing the life course of boys and men of color.

Children at war.
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ISBN: 0520248767 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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This is the first comprehensive look at the use of children in contemporary warfare. From U.S. soldiers having to fight children in Afghanistan and Iraq to juvenile terrorists in Sri Lanka to Palestine, the new, younger face of battle is a terrible reality of 21st century warfare. Indeed, the very first American soldier killed by hostile fire in the "War on Terrorism" was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy. Children at War is the first comprehensive examination of a disturbing and escalating phenomenon: The use of children as soldiers around the globe. Interweaving explanatory narrative with the voices of child soldiers themselves, P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in modern warfare, introduces the brutal reality of conflict, where children are sent off to fight in war-torn hotspots from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He explores the evolution of this phenomenon, how and why children are recruited, indoctrinated, trained, and converted to soldiers and then lays out the consequences for global security, with a special case study on terrorism. With this established, he lays out the responses that can end this horrible practice. What emerges is not only a compelling and clarifying read on the darker reality of modern warfare, but also a clear and urgent call for action.

Child soldiers : from violence to protection
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ISBN: 9780674023598 9780674032552 0674023595 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,

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Childhood vulnerabilities in South Africa : some ethical perspectives
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ISBN: 1928480950 1928480942 Year: 2020 Publisher: Stellenbosch, South Africa : Sun Press,


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Life after Guns : Reciprocity and Respect among Young Men in Liberia
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ISBN: 9780813573496 9780813573502 0813573491 0813573505 9780813573489 0813573483 9780813573472 0813573475 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press,

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Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years following Liberia's fourteen-year bloody civil war. Unlike others who study child soldiers, Abby Hardgrove's ethnography looks at both former combatants and also the youth who were not recruited to fight. She focuses on the structural constraints and household and family organizations that either helped or limited opportunities as these young men grew into adulthood. Whether young men fought or not, and whether they had cultural capital before the war or not, family relations mattered a great deal in how they fared after the war.


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Conflict of interests : children and guns in zones of instability : panel discussion at the United Nations, 15 July 2008, New York
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ISBN: 9210543017 9789210543019 9211422655 9789211422658 Year: 2009 Publisher: [New York] : United Nations,

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Article 38 : children in armed conflicts.
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ISBN: 9004145613 9786610868582 1429427353 904740811X 1280868589 1433706962 9789004145610 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leiden Nijhoff

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This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 38 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is part of the series, A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child , which provides an article by article analysis of all substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC and its two Optional Protocols. For every article, a comparison with related human rights provisions is made, followed by an in-depth exploration of the nature and scope of State obligations deriving from that article. The series constitutes an essential tool for actor

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