Targeting a Generation: How Intersectional Youth Outreach Can Overcome America's Gun Divide.
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in the first-year Writing and Rhetoric classes, Integrated Learning Environments, and Thinking Matters programs. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style. In this essay, Malavika Kannan leverages her lived experiences and proposes tactics to engage youth in the gun violence prevention movement—an intersectional social justice issue—through intentional messaging, empathy, and inclusive outreach.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | 2020 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kannan, Malavika |
|---|---|
| Advisor | Johnson, Jennifer |
Subjects
| Subject | Program in Writing and Rhetoric |
|---|---|
| Subject | gun violence |
| Subject | NRA |
| Genre | Article |
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- Kannan, Malavika and Johnson, Jennifer. (2020). Targeting a Generation: How Intersectional Youth Outreach Can Overcome America's Gun Divide. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/sf639tg5618
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