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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Warikoo, Natasha Kumar, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Identificatie (psychologie)
Immigranten.
Studieresultaten.
Jeugdcultuur.
Youth > Social life and customs.
High school students > Social life and customs.
Group identity.
Children of immigrants.
Assimilation (Sociology)
Academic achievement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Teenagers.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Adolescence.
Identite collective > Études transculturelles.
Assimilation (Sociologie)
Éleves du secondaire > Moeurs et coutumes > Études transculturelles.
Enfants d'immigrants > Études transculturelles.
Group identity > Cross-cultural studies.
Academic achievement > Cross-cultural studies.
High school students > Social life and customs > Cross-cultural studies.
Children of immigrants > Cross-cultural studies.
Youth > Social life and customs > Cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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