Balancing acts [[electronic resource] ] : youth culture in the global city / / Natasha Kumar Warikoo

• Autore: Warikoo Natasha Kumar <1973->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.235086/91209421
• Soggetto topico: Youth - Social life and customs; Children of immigrants; High school students - Social life and customs; Assimilation (Sociology); Academic achievement; Group identity
• Soggetto non controllato: administrators; behavioral problems; clothing; ethnographers; ethnography; globalism; high school students; hip hop culture; immigrant experiences; immigrant parents; immigrants; interviews; london; low achieving high schools; minority students; musical tastes; new york city; parents and kids; peer groups; racial diversity; rap culture; school setting; school success; survey data; teachers and students; urban setting; youth culture; youth music; youths
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this timely examination of children of immigrants in New York and London, Natasha Kumar Warikoo asks, Is there a link between rap/hip-hop-influenced youth culture and motivation to succeed in school? Warikoo challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture -- the clothing, music, and tough talk -- to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives. Using ethnographic, survey, and interview data in two racially diverse, low-achieving high schools, Warikoo analyzes seemingly oppositional styles, tastes in music, and school behaviors and finds that most teens try to find a balance between success with peers and success in school.
• Altri titoli varianti: Youth culture in the global city
• Titolo autorizzato: Balancing Acts
• ISBN: 1-283-27736-0; 9786613277367; 0-520-94779-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786706803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II