Race, place and globalization : youth cultures in a changing world / Anoop Nayak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nayak, Anoop.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 208 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Berg, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What does it mean to be young in a changing world? How are migration, settlement and new urban cultures shaping young lives? And in particular, are race, place and class still meaningful to contemporary youth cultures? This path-breaking book shows how young people are responding differently to recent social, economic and cultural transformations. From the spirit of white localism deployed by de-industrialized football supporters, to the hybrid multicultural exchanges displayed by urban youth, young people are finding new ways of wrestling with questions of race and ethnicity. Through globalization is whiteness now being displaced by black culture -- in fashion, music and slang -- and if so, what impact is this having on race politics? Moreover, what happens to those people and places that are left behind by changes in late modernity? By developing a unique brand of spatial cultural studies, this book explores complex formations of race and class as they arise in the subtle textures of whiteness, respectability and youth subjectivity. This is the first book to look specifically at young ethnicities through the prism of local-global change. Eloquently written, its riveting ethnographic case studies and insider accounts will ensure that this book becomes a benchmark publication for writing on race in years to come.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Part I: Passing Times

1 Introduction: Local-Global

The Fieldwork

Structure

2 Placing Subcultures: Ethnographic Methods and Youth Studies

The History of Subcultural Studies

The Critique of Subculture

Ethnography, People and Place

The Challenge and Limits of Postmodernism

3 Diasporic Movement and Settlement in the North East of England

Introduction

'Beyond the Pale': Deconstructing the White Highlands

Anti-racism, Labour Histories and 'Grassroots' Resistance

Part II: Changing Times

4 Real Geordies: White Masculinities and the Localized Response to De-industrialization

Economic Restructuring and Labour Market Transitions in the North East

The Real Geordies

Refashioning 'Geordie': Football-Fandom

Refasioning 'Geordie': Drinking and Going Out

The Anatomy of Labour: The Price of an Industrial Inheritance

Concluding Remarks

5 Charver Kids: Community, Class and the Culture of Crime

Charver Kids: Tyneside's Not-Quite-White

6 Wiggers, Wannabes and White Negroes: Emerging Ethnicities and Cultural Fusion

White Negroes in the North East of England: The Possibilities and Constraints of Cultural Hybridity

Part III: Coming Times

7 Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities: Rethinking Racial Binaries

Rethinking the Black/White Binary: Post-structuralist and Psychoanalytic Interventions

Classroom Cultures and Racist Name-Calling: Ethnic Majority Perspectives

8 Youth Cultures Reconsidered

Change and Continuity

Whiteness

Place and Identity

Appendices

Appendix 1: The Ethnography

Appendix 2: The Institutional Interviews.

Appendix 3: Data Analysis

Bibliography

Author Index

General Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781859736041

9786610339211

9781474215398

1474215394

9781845205683

1845205685

9781859736098

1859736092

9781280339219

1280339217

OCLC:

935228287