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This work is focused on some of the most important questions of our time. The
health and economic... more This work is focused on some of the most important questions of our time. The
health and economic impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic, national anti-racist activism, and protests against police violence have heightened public awareness of the historic and systemic racial inequities in our country. Black and Brown communities have disproportionately contracted and died of COVID-19, exacerbating already severe inequities. And the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of the police catalyzed conversations, in white communities and among communities of color, around the role of the police and justice system in creating harm in Black and Brown communities.
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Boys and men of color (BMoC) are disproportionately overrepresented in our nation’s population of... more Boys and men of color (BMoC) are disproportionately overrepresented in our nation’s population of disconnected or “opportunity youth”—youth who are out of school and out of work and have a history of additional barriers, such as poverty, systems involvement, and nonmarital parenthood, that intersect with and result in specific challenges in need of thoughtful, local solutions. This brief presents a case study on Baltimore’s disconnected BMoC, who are primarily Black,1 to illustrate “intersectionality” and “embeddedness” in structural and local barriers these young men face
in gaining social capital, economic mobility, and workforce participation. The importance and relevance of this research is to fill gaps in scholarship and practice related to how disconnected BMoC can acquire the technical, communication, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills typically acquired during emerging adulthood, skills highly valued in the primary labor market, through local service provision.
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This Research Brief explores the intersection of local government, Positive
Youth Development (PY... more This Research Brief explores the intersection of local government, Positive
Youth Development (PYD), and financial empowerment. PYD describes
ideal outcomes for youth (particularly competence, confidence, connection,
character and caring), as well as the processes through which they
achieve these outcomes (including intentionally supportive environments,
opportunities to achieve goals and influence environments, and involvement in planning and design). The CFE Fund’s experience has shown that to best support PYD, local programs should include financial empowerment strategies: access to, and education about, financial systems combined with opportunities and support to set goals and make good financial decisions. New focus group research demonstrates that adolescents and young adults are financial actors who recognize that financial capability is critical to their personal development. In addition, the research suggests more effective ways to design and execute financial empowerment strategies to youth interests and circumstances. Summer Jobs Connect represents a flexible model for integrating financial empowerment into municipal youth programs to support PYD efforts of local government leaders.
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Journal of Information Communications and Technology , 2005
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The Journal of Intergroup Relations, 2014
To begin to address the vestiges of racism that permeates many of our institutions and our long t... more To begin to address the vestiges of racism that permeates many of our institutions and our long term structures, we have to continually ameliorate the current effects of past discrimination and racism. It starts with acknowledgment and an understanding that racism is still with us. It means acknowledging racism is also “social and institutional power plus race prejudice,” and not something we can only attribute to an individual. It also starts with the acceptance of the diversity that makes us who we are as a country. In order for us to address racism and diversity in an effective way, we must build inter-racial and ethnic relationships and develop “safe containers” in which we can have honest dialogue and deal with personal and group challenges, address issues and questions related to racism and begin to position ourselves to become effective anti-racists.
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Credit markets for the poor, Jan 1, 2005
In recent years, poverty research has shifted from focusing exclusively on strategies to increase... more In recent years, poverty research has shifted from focusing exclusively on strategies to increase the income of the poor to attempts to enable low-income people to generate assets (Oliver and Shapiro 1997). Asset creation strategies tend to encourage saving among the ...
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Youth & …, Jan 1, 2010
Abstract Recent data suggest that the digital divide between White and minority youth persists, p... more Abstract Recent data suggest that the digital divide between White and minority youth persists, particularly in terms of home access to computers and the Internet. Community technology centers (CTCs) are an important alterative access point, especially for low-...
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Center for Justice, …, Jan 1, 2006
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Conference Presentations by antwuan wallace
Conference Paper presented Northeastern Political Science Association, Omni Parker House, Boston, MA, 2008
Working poor families living in underserved urban communities are gaining access to the Internet ... more Working poor families living in underserved urban communities are gaining access to the Internet and attending Information Communication Technologies (ICT) through municipally provisioned broadband and Digital Inclusion (DI) plans. Within this Information Society, new levels of disparities emerge for working poor families threatening greater socio-economic marginalization. Likewise, new possibilities and opportunities for socio-economic mobility and civic participation arise for working-poor families. Subsequently, the public policy implications are joint and several. Using an interdisciplinary, multi-method approach, comparative case studies are offered as the basis of analysis to evaluate municipal broadband policies and DI plans in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Boston. Non-linear models that estimate disparities between and among working poor families participating in the respective DI plans are presented.
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The research examines Digital Inclusion (DI) initiatives, contemporary development of publicly su... more The research examines Digital Inclusion (DI) initiatives, contemporary development of publicly subsidized and privately provisioned broadband Internet access and ICT infrastructures targeting poor individuals in unserved and underserved U.S. communities. Of particular interest, are local strategies designed to spur broadband adoption to alleviate poverty and promote other socioeconomic development goals thereby, achieving the anchor component of DI policy. The central research question considers how and to what extent do DI goals shape the way poor individuals and families in underserved communities access broadband-enabled infrastructures, the Internet and attending information communication technologies? Specifically, how extra-market support for working poor individuals, their familial interactions, and institutional affiliations amplify or reinforce actions to locate assistance to secure, or not secure, broadband adoption? Using Diffusion of Innovations (“DOI”) theoretical assumptions and ascriptions of two categories: (1) late adopters1 and (2) laggards2 (Rogers 2003), respectively, to make predictions about poor individual and familial responses to broadband-enabled technologies to inform new digital divide measures that appreciate the impact of DI plans. This reframing is important for three important reasons. First, it helps identify a group of poor individuals and families described in the Information Society (Castells 1999; van Dijk). Second, it may help calculate the economic costs of government intervention relative to the benefits for late adopters and laggards, who may not want to adopt broadband-enabled Internet access at home. Finally, it reorients “second tier” theorization popularly accepted in addressing digital divide and welfare economics regarding state intervention in private market technology-related expenses (Servon 2003). These questions are indirectly relevant to embeddedness in social networks (Grannovetter 1999) and directly relevant to opinion leadership, where an agent who is an active media user and who interprets the meaning of media messages or content for lower-end media users is held in high esteem by those that accept his or her opinions (Rogers 2003; Larzarfeld and Katz 1957). Comparative evaluation exists on how broadband adoption is a continuum for poor families (Horrigan 2003; Dailey et al 2008) yet less empirical data exists about broadband adoption phenomenon spurred within DI programs - the variations and disparate impacts.
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health and economic impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic, national anti-racist activism, and protests against police violence have heightened public awareness of the historic and systemic racial inequities in our country. Black and Brown communities have disproportionately contracted and died of COVID-19, exacerbating already severe inequities. And the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of the police catalyzed conversations, in white communities and among communities of color, around the role of the police and justice system in creating harm in Black and Brown communities.
in gaining social capital, economic mobility, and workforce participation. The importance and relevance of this research is to fill gaps in scholarship and practice related to how disconnected BMoC can acquire the technical, communication, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills typically acquired during emerging adulthood, skills highly valued in the primary labor market, through local service provision.
Youth Development (PYD), and financial empowerment. PYD describes
ideal outcomes for youth (particularly competence, confidence, connection,
character and caring), as well as the processes through which they
achieve these outcomes (including intentionally supportive environments,
opportunities to achieve goals and influence environments, and involvement in planning and design). The CFE Fund’s experience has shown that to best support PYD, local programs should include financial empowerment strategies: access to, and education about, financial systems combined with opportunities and support to set goals and make good financial decisions. New focus group research demonstrates that adolescents and young adults are financial actors who recognize that financial capability is critical to their personal development. In addition, the research suggests more effective ways to design and execute financial empowerment strategies to youth interests and circumstances. Summer Jobs Connect represents a flexible model for integrating financial empowerment into municipal youth programs to support PYD efforts of local government leaders.
Conference Presentations by antwuan wallace
Drafts by antwuan wallace
health and economic impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic, national anti-racist activism, and protests against police violence have heightened public awareness of the historic and systemic racial inequities in our country. Black and Brown communities have disproportionately contracted and died of COVID-19, exacerbating already severe inequities. And the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of the police catalyzed conversations, in white communities and among communities of color, around the role of the police and justice system in creating harm in Black and Brown communities.
in gaining social capital, economic mobility, and workforce participation. The importance and relevance of this research is to fill gaps in scholarship and practice related to how disconnected BMoC can acquire the technical, communication, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills typically acquired during emerging adulthood, skills highly valued in the primary labor market, through local service provision.
Youth Development (PYD), and financial empowerment. PYD describes
ideal outcomes for youth (particularly competence, confidence, connection,
character and caring), as well as the processes through which they
achieve these outcomes (including intentionally supportive environments,
opportunities to achieve goals and influence environments, and involvement in planning and design). The CFE Fund’s experience has shown that to best support PYD, local programs should include financial empowerment strategies: access to, and education about, financial systems combined with opportunities and support to set goals and make good financial decisions. New focus group research demonstrates that adolescents and young adults are financial actors who recognize that financial capability is critical to their personal development. In addition, the research suggests more effective ways to design and execute financial empowerment strategies to youth interests and circumstances. Summer Jobs Connect represents a flexible model for integrating financial empowerment into municipal youth programs to support PYD efforts of local government leaders.