| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 224 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Youth -- Social life and customs -- Cross-cultural studies
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Children of immigrants -- Cross-cultural studies
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High school students -- Social life and customs -- Cross-cultural studies
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Assimilation (Sociology)
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Academic achievement -- Cross-cultural studies
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Group identity -- Cross-cultural studies
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Adolescence.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Teenagers.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Academic achievement
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Assimilation (Sociology)
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Children of immigrants
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Group identity
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High school students -- Social life and customs
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Youth -- Social life and customs
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Jeugdcultuur.
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Studieresultaten.
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Immigranten.
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Identificatie (psychologie)
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520947795 |
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0520947797 |
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