ISBN:
9780812218961
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (296 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Youthscapes : The Popular, the National, the Global
DDC:
305.235
Keywords:
Popular culture
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Youth ; Cross-cultural studies
;
Youth ; Social conditions
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A study of youth culture worldwide and its influence on popular cultural practices, national ideologies, and global markets.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Midnight's Children: Youth Culture in the Age of Globalization -- Introduction -- Part I: Documents and Tags -- 1 Straight Outta Mogadishu: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices Among Somali Youth in North American High Schools -- 2 Gangs and Their Walls -- 3 Race Bending: "Mixed" Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California -- 4 The Intimate and the Imperial: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11 -- Part II: Movements and Outbreaks -- 5 The Amway Connection: How Transnational Ideas of Beauty and Money Affect Northern Thai Girls' Perceptions of Their Future Options -- 6 Homies Unidos: International Barrio Warriors Waging Peace on Two Fronts -- 7 Globalizing Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone -- Part III: Icons and Retakes -- 8 ''Jackie Chan Is Nobody, and So Am I": Juvenile Fan Culture and the Construction of Transnational Male Identity in the Tamil Diaspora -- 9 Authenticating Practices: Producing Realness, Performing Youth -- 10 Making Hard-Core Masculinity: Teenage Boys Playing House -- 11 Bad Boys: Abstractions of Difference and the Politics of Youth "Deviance -- List of Contributors -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword: Midnight's Children: Youth Culture in the Age of Globalization""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Documents and Tags""; ""1 Straight Outta Mogadishu: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices Among Somali Youth in North American High Schools""; ""2 Gangs and Their Walls""; ""3 Race Bending: ""Mixed"" Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California""; ""4 The Intimate and the Imperial: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11""; ""Part II: Movements and Outbreaks""
Description / Table of Contents:
""5 The Amway Connection: How Transnational Ideas of Beauty and Money Affect Northern Thai Girls' Perceptions of Their Future Options""""6 Homies Unidos: International Barrio Warriors Waging Peace on Two Fronts""; ""7 Globalizing Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone""; ""Part III: Icons and Retakes""; ""8 ''Jackie Chan Is Nobody, and So Am I"": Juvenile Fan Culture and the Construction of Transnational Male Identity in the Tamil Diaspora""; ""9 Authenticating Practices: Producing Realness, Performing Youth""; ""10 Making Hard-Core Masculinity: Teenage Boys Playing House""
Description / Table of Contents:
""11 Bad Boys: Abstractions of Difference and the Politics of Youth ""Deviance""""""List of Contributors""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""Acknowledgments""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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