Leading cultural critics on the lasting contributions of American
youth on culture and social hierarchies America has long been
fascinated by youth and its cultural expressions. The notion of
"youth" has played a central role in processes of social
reproduction and historical change throughout the twentieth
century. But when we turn a critical eye to youth culture, we too
often focus on youth as a passive and unchanging concept. In
Generations of Youth, Joe Austin and Michael Willard have brought
together leading cultural critics from history, sociology, and
cultural studies to explore the cultural expressions of
twentieth-century youth. The contributors to the volume explore
diverse popular culture practices such as Chicano rock-and-roll
dancing; the Boy Scouts and heroism; 'zines and community; Native
American boxing; African American hip-hop; fan clubs and
femininity; Malcolm X's zoot suit; Filipino McIntosh suits;
lesbian, bisexual, and gay Internet culture; Chicano lowriding;
skateboarding and the production of urban space; graffiti and
spatial mobility; Native American pow wows; and post-punk,
Generation X, and downward mobility. Generations of Youth considers
the ways in which young people's autonomy and "youth" itself is
produced in negotiation with adult authority and institutions of
socialization. The definitive volume on American youth cultures
past and present, Generations of Youth traces the central ways in
which historical meanings and experiences of youth intersect with
other axes of the U.S. social hierarchy. We learn how race,
ethnicity, sexuality, gender, class, and space intersect to affect
our notions of youth and youth's notions of itself. Essays focus on
the ways in which young people have appropriated and created
cultural forms, practices, and social ideologies that are connected
to changes in consumer and labor markets, to economies of prestige,
and to received social hierarchies and traditions. Contributors to
the volume include Victoria Getis, Jay Mechling, Mary Odem, John
Bloom, Georganne Scheiner, Paula Fass, Linda N. Espana-Maram, Robin
D. G. Kelley, Matt Garcia, James T. Sears, Beth Bailey, Ernesto
Chavez, Jeffrey Rangel, Ryan Moore, Kyra Gaunt, Robert Walser,
William Wei, Susan Willis, David Roediger, Joanne Addison and
Michelle Comstock, Rachel Buff, George Lipsitz, Brenda Bright,
Stanley Aronowitz, and Steve Duncombe.
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