Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean—these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were often embraced and hotly debated at the dawn of the Cold War era because they stood for dissent and defiance at a time when the ideological production of the United States as leader of the “free world” required emancipatory figures who could represent America’s geopolitical claims. Medovoi argues that the “bad boy” became a guarantor of the country’s anti-authoritarian, democratic self-image: a kindred spirit to the freedom-seeking nations of the rapidly decolonizing third world and a counterpoint to the repressive conformity attributed to both the Soviet Union abroad and America’s burgeoning suburbs at home. » Read more: Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity (New Americanists)
Granting Programs for Children, Youth and Families
A lot of granting programs has their aim to support young families and young children. The range of such programs is very wide. Let us consider some of them and their objectives.
Children, youth and family grants.
A.L. Mailman Family Foundation. This program is aimed at providing funds for families which have young children. The members of the association focus their attention on the upbringing of young children in order to provide children’s successful physical and emotional well-being.
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Slaying Goliath
Description
Goliath takes a charged, evocative look at 10 days in the life of a boy’sfifth-grade basketball club from Harlem. It follows the kids and parents-including the filmmakers and their own son, who plays on the team-as they travel to a national competition in Florida. Whole worlds are laid bare with skillful economy, as grown-ups and coaches grapple with the sometimes diverging demands of parenting and winning. The difficulty of raising black boys, as well as the difficulty of … More >>