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Youthscapes : the popular, the national, the global /

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

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Maira, Sunaina; Soep, Elisabeth
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2005]
©2005
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Popular culture.
Youth > Cross-cultural studies.
Youth > Social conditions.
Social sciences.
Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology.
Sociology.
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812205671
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Summary: A study of youth culture worldwide and its influence on popular cultural practices, national ideologies, and global markets.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9780812205671
Index Number: HQ796
CLC: C913.5
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Foreword: Midnight's Children: Youth Culture in the Age of Globalization /
Introduction /
Chapter 1. Straight Outta Mogadishu: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices Among Somali Youth in North American High Schools /
Chapter 2. Gangs and Their Walls /
Chapter 3. Race Bending: "Mixed" Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California /
Chapter 4. The Intimate and the Imperial: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11 /
Chapter 5. The Amway Connection: How Transnational Ideas of Beauty and Money Affect Northern Thai Girls Perceptions of Their Future Options /
Chapter 6. Homies Unidos: International Barrio Warriors Waging Peace on Two Fronts /
Chapter 7. Globalizing Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone /
Chapter 8. "Jackie Chan Is Nobody, and So Am I": Juvenile Fan Culture and the Construction of Transnational Male Identity in the Tamil Diaspora --
Chapter 9. Authenticating Practices: Producing Realness, Performing Youth --
Chapter 10. Making Hard-Core Masculinity: Teenage Boys Playing House --
Chapter 11. Bad Boys: Abstractions of Difference and the Politics of Youth "Deviance" --
Contributors --
Notes --
References --
Index --
Acknowledgments.

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