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Author:   Sunaina Maira ,  Elisabeth Soep ,  George Lipsitz
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9780812238341

ISBN 10:   0812238346
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   27 December 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Foreword -George Lipsitz Introduction -Sunaina Maira and Elisabeth Soep PART I. DOCUMENTS AND TAGS 1. Straight Outta Mogadishu: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices Among Somali Youth in North American High Schools -Murray Forman 2. Gangs and Their Walls -Ralph Cintron 3. Race Bending: Mixed Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California -Mica Pollock 4. The Intimate and the Imperial: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11 -Sunaina Maira 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 -Ida Fadzillah 6. Homies Unidos: International Barrio Warriors Waging Peace on Two Fronts -Gustavo Adolfo Guerra Vasquez 7. Globalizing Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone -Susan Shepler 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 -Alexandra Schneider 9. Authenticating Practices: Producing Realness, Performing Youth -Nicole R. Fleetwood 10. Making Hard-Core Masculinity: Teenage Boys Playing House -Elisabeth Soep 11. Bad Boys: Abstractions of Difference and the Politics of Youth Deviance -Tidd R. Ramlow List of Contributors Notes References Acknowledgments

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Comprised largely of cultural studies-influenced ethnographies of young people in various locations around the world, this collection of timely and provocative studies moves beyond the familiar and easy tropes of young person as urban, multi-tasking, irreverent, and technologically savvy. Instead, the reader is introduced to a variety of young people, with considerable attention paid to the social, institutional, cultural, and economic structures that concretize spaces of possibility and nonpossibility for them. --Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Comprised largely of cultural studies-influenced ethnographies of young people in various locations around the world, this collection of timely and provocative studies moves beyond the familiar and easy tropes of young person as urban, multi-tasking, irreverent, and technologically savvy. Instead, the reader is introduced to a variety of young people, with considerable attention paid to the social, institutional, cultural, and economic structures that concretize spaces of possibility and nonpossibility for them. -Anthropology and Education Quarterly

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Sunaina Maira is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis. Elisabeth Soep teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Producer and the Education Director of Youth Radio.

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