LEADER 04095nam 2200553 450 001 9910792641103321 005 20240108191059.0 010 $a1-4798-6013-1 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479860135 035 $a(CKB)3710000001025698 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4500650 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001719036 035 $a(DE-B1597)548365 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479860135 035 $a(OCoLC)969738441 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse86926 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4500650 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11332181 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001025698 100 $a20170203h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFast-food kids $efrench fries, lunch lines, and social ties /$fAmy L. Best 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cNew York University Press,$d2017. 210 4$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (187 pages) 225 1 $aCritical Perspectives on Youth. 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 0 $a1-4798-4270-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Family Meal --$t2. The Cafeteria as Great Equalizer --$t3. The Cafeteria as Youth Space --$t4. Eat What?s Good for You --$t5. I?m Lovin? It --$tConclusion --$tMethods Appendix --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $a2018 Morris Rosenberg Award, DC Sociological Society In recent years, questions such as ?what are kids eating?? and ?who?s feeding our kids?? have sparked a torrent of public and policy debates as we increasingly focus our attention on the issue of childhood obesity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that while 1 in 3 American children are either overweight or obese, that number is higher for children living in concentrated poverty. Enduring inequalities in communities, schools, and homes affect young people?s access to different types of food, with real consequences in life choices and health outcomes. Fast-Food Kids sheds light on the social contexts in which kids eat, and the broader backdrop of social change in American life, demonstrating why attention to food?s social meaning is important to effective public health policy, particularly actions that focus on behavioral change and school food reforms. Through in-depth interviews and observation with high school and college students, Amy L. Best provides rich narratives of the everyday life of youth, highlighting young people?s voices and perspectives and the places where they eat. The book provides a thorough account of the role that food plays in the lives of today?s youth, teasing out the many contradictions of food as a cultural object?fast food portrayed as a necessity for the poor and yet, reviled by upper-middle class parents; fast food restaurants as one of the few spaces that kids can claim and effectively ?take over? for several hours each day; food corporations spending millions each year to market their food to kids and to lobby Congress against regulations; schools struggling to deliver healthy food young people will actually eat, and the difficulty of arranging family dinners, which are known to promote family cohesion and stability. A conceptually-driven, ethnographic account of youth and the places where they eat, Fast-Food Kids examines the complex relationship between youth identity and food consumption, offering answers to those straightforward questions that require crucial and comprehensive solutions. 410 0$aCritical perspectives on youth. 606 $aConvenience foods$xSocial aspects 606 $aChildren 615 0$aConvenience foods$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aChildren. 676 $a642.1 700 $aBest$b Amy L.$f1970-$01149692 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792641103321 996 $aFast-food kids$93780285 997 $aUNINA