عنوان

Wannabes, goths, and Christians :

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0226898423

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0226898431

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9780226898421

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9780226898438

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b779903

Title Proper

Wannabes, goths, and Christians :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the boundaries of sex, style, and status /

First Statement of Responsibility

Amy C. Wilkins.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 281 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: gender, race, class, and cultural projects -- From geek to freak -- So full of myself as a chick -- Just good people -- Abstinence -- Puerto Rican wannabes -- Why don't they act like who they really are? -- The gendered limits of racial crossover -- Conclusions, contradictions, and collisions.

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Text of Note

On college campuses and in high school halls, being white means being boring. Since whiteness is the mainstream, white kids lack a cultural identity that's exotic or worth flaunting. To remedy this, countless white youths across the country are now joining more outre; subcultures like the Black - and Puerto Rican - dominated hip-hop scene, the glamorously morose goth community, or an evangelical Christian organization whose members reject campus partying. Amy C. Wilkins's intimate ethnography of these three subcultures reveals a complex tug-of-war between the demands of race, class, and gender in which transgressing in one realm often means conforming to expectations in another. Subcultures help young people, especially women, navigate these connecting territories by offering them different sexual strategies: wannabes cross racial lines, goths break taboos by becoming involved with multiple partners, and Christians forego romance to develop their bond with God. Avoiding sanctimonious hysteria over youth gone astray, Wilkins meets these kids on their own terms, and the result is a perceptive and provocative portrait of the structure of young lives.

Identity (Psychology) in youth.

Subculture-- United States, Case studies.

Young adults-- United States-- Psychology.

Young adults-- United States-- Social conditions.

Christ.

Gruftie.

Identität

Identity (Psychology) in youth.

Jugend

Jugendkultur

Jugendkultur.

Mode.

Nachahmung.

Seksualiteit.

Sozialpsychologie

Subculture.

Subkultur

Subkultur.

Vrouwen.

Young adults-- Psychology.

Young adults-- Social conditions.

United States.

USA

USA.

USA.

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Edition

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Book number

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Wilkins, Amy C.

Date of Transaction

20201206185535.0

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[Book]

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