Marginalized youth actively shape subjectivity rather than passively accept assigned identities

Evidence

As Mette Andersson pointed out, in her excellent study of the experience of ethnic minority youth in Norway, young people are “constituted through difference, but through this spatially and temporally located construction, they shape new modes of subjectivity. They are creative actors, and not passive adapters to external ascriptions of identity” (Andersson, 2000:304). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3036

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the actor-versus-passive-victim theme in diaspora and postcolonial literature. — connects to: Dialogical spaces let incarcerated students reconstruct identity positions and worldviews — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 393; the MOC “The Forge and the Other: How Power, Discourse, and Encounter Cast the Self”