Balancing acts : youth culture in the global city /

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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 manifestatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warikoo, Natasha Kumar, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Youth > Social life and customs > Cross-cultural studies.
Children of immigrants > Cross-cultural studies.
High school students > Social life and customs > Cross-cultural studies.
Assimilation (Sociology)
Academic achievement > Cross-cultural studies.
Group identity > Cross-cultural studies.
Enfants d'immigrants > Études transculturelles.
Élèves du secondaire > Mœurs et coutumes > Études transculturelles.
Assimilation (Sociologie)
Identité collective > Études transculturelles.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Teenagers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Academic achievement
Children of immigrants
Group identity
High school students > Social life and customs
Youth > Social life and customs
Jeugdcultuur.
Studieresultaten.
Immigranten.
Identificatie (psychologie)
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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