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Wannabes, Goths, and Christians: The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status
Amy C. Wilkins
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Description for Wannabes, Goths, and Christians: The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status
Paperback. Aims to reveal a tug-of-war between the demands of race, class, and gender in which transgressing in one realm often means conforming to expectations in another. This book shows that subcultures navigate these connecting territories by offering them different sexual strategies. It presents a portrait of the structure of young lives. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
On college campuses and in high school halls, being white means being boring. Since whiteness is the mainstream, white kids lack a cultural identity that's exotic or worth flaunting. To remedy this, countless white youths across the country are now joining more outre subcultures like the Black- and Puerto Rican - dominated hip-hop scene, the glamorously morose goth community, or an evangelical Christian organization whose members reject campus partying. Amy C. Wilkins' intimate ethnography of these three subcultures reveals a complex tug-of-war between the demands of race, class, and gender in which transgressing in one realm often means conforming to ... Read more
On college campuses and in high school halls, being white means being boring. Since whiteness is the mainstream, white kids lack a cultural identity that's exotic or worth flaunting. To remedy this, countless white youths across the country are now joining more outre subcultures like the Black- and Puerto Rican - dominated hip-hop scene, the glamorously morose goth community, or an evangelical Christian organization whose members reject campus partying. Amy C. Wilkins' intimate ethnography of these three subcultures reveals a complex tug-of-war between the demands of race, class, and gender in which transgressing in one realm often means conforming to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226898438
SKU
V9780226898438
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About Amy C. Wilkins
Amy C. Wilkins is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Reviews for Wannabes, Goths, and Christians: The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status
"This is a beautifully, pungently written book in which telling ethnographic detail and compelling, often entertaining, narrative accounts are deployed in the service of a theoretically sophisticated, well-argued analysis. It is both provocative and riveting." - Mary Ann Clawson, Wesleyan University"