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The War of My Generation - Youth Culture and the War on Terror (Paperback)
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The War of My Generation - Youth Culture and the War on Terror (Paperback)
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In the years since the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million
Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty
million children have been born. These members of the millennial
and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked
by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and
policies that have raised questions about the U.S. strategies
abroad and at home. The War of My Generation offers the first essay
collection to focus specifically on how the terrorist attacks and
their aftermath have shaped this new generation of Americans.
Drawing from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology,
sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies, the essays cover
a wide range of topics, from graphic war images in the classroom to
computer games designed to promote military recruitment to books
about parents in the combat zone. David Kieran and the contributors
address millennials, intersections with contemporary questions
about terrorism, U.S. militarism, and U.S. foreign policy,
asserting that young people are both consumers and producers of
narratives that contribute to, modify, and resist discourses about
9/11 and the War on Terror. Young people have not been shielded
from the attacks or from the wars and policy debates that followed;
instead, they have been active participants. One study reveals that
the "lived memories" of the attack have led some to link the
September 11th attacks to the Holocaust as moments in which
innocent people suffered but resiliently persevered. Another
contribution discusses how Muslim youth in Silicon Valley embraced
the rhetoric of the Civil Rights movement as they fought against
the harassment, governmental surveillance, and denial of rights
that has plagued them since 9/11. Revealing how young people
understand the War on Terror - and how adults understand the way
young people think - The War of My Generation offers groundbreaking
research on catastrophic events still fresh in our minds.
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