Maira, Sunaina. <br/><br/>
Youthscapes :  The Popular, the National, the Global. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (296 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> A study of youth culture worldwide and its influence on popular cultural practices, national ideologies, and global markets. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812205671 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Popular culture.<br/>Youth-Cross-cultural studies.<br/>Youth-Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ796 -- .Y88 2005eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.235