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Youthscapes : The Popular, the National, the Global.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812205671
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: YouthscapesDDC classification:
  • 305.235
LOC classification:
  • HQ796 -- .Y88 2005eb
Online resources:
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 -- 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.
Summary: A study of youth culture worldwide and its influence on popular cultural practices, national ideologies, and global markets.
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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.

A study of youth culture worldwide and its influence on popular cultural practices, national ideologies, and global markets.

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