Balancing 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
Youth -- Social life and customs -- Cross-cultural studies
Children of immigrants -- Cross-cultural studies
High school students -- Social life and customs -- Cross-cultural studies