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Desis in the House
Posted on August 4, 2009 - 12:55pm — 40728651In this thorough academic study, Maira (Asian American studies, Univ. of Massachusetts) explores the cultural dynamics found among Desis, second-generation South Asian American youth.
Hip Hop Immortals
Posted on November 25, 2008 - 11:55am — akadagathurFor over a quarter of a century the greatest social phenomenon known as Hip-Hop has influenced more than youth culture. It has changed the way Corporate America communicates ans sells its products. What you're about to see are the rituals & symbols of initiation into a secret love that controls today's kids.

Youth Culture
Posted on September 18, 2008 - 7:48pm — archive_staffThis innovative collection of newly commissioned essays from leading experts in sociology and cultural studies looks at youth culture through subcultural identity. Youth Culture is the first text to bridge sociology and cultural studies in order to understand youth identity replacing the outmoded theories based on deviance.

Microphone Fiends
Posted on September 18, 2008 - 7:48pm — archive_staffFrom Publishers Weekly: The topics included in this collection of essays springing from a Princeton University conference range from black nationalism in the hip-hop community to the disco scene's vision of gay identity to hard-core rock and its evolving relationship to feminism.

Cool Places
Posted on September 18, 2008 - 7:48pm — archive_staffMusic, drugs, clubbing and travel--this is the popular image of what it means to be young. However, young people's lives are also busy with the everyday realities of home, school and work. The engaging essays in Cool Places explore the dichotomy of youthful lives by addressing the issues of representation and resistance in youth culture today.
