AuthorWarikoo, Natasha Kumar, 1973-
TitleBalancing acts : youth culture in the global city / Natasha Kumar Warikoo
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011
Descript xviii, 224 p. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Understanding cultural incorporation -- Music and style: Americanization or globalization? -- Racial authenticity, "acting black," and cultural consumption -- Two types of racial discrimination: adult exclusion and peer bullying -- Positive attitudes and (some) negative behaviors -- Balancing acts: peer status and academic orientations -- Ethnic and racial boundaries -- Explaining youth cultures, improving academic achievement


SUBJECT

  1. Youth -- Social life and customs -- Cross-cultural studies
  2. Children of immigrants -- Cross-cultural studies
  3. High school students -- Social life and customs -- Cross-cultural studies
  4. Assimilation (Sociology)
  5. Academic achievement -- Cross-cultural studies
  6. Group identity -- Cross-cultural studies

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Arts LibraryHQ796 W277B 2011 CHECK SHELVES