Wannabes, goths, and Christians : the boundaries of sex, style, and status /

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Author / Creator:Wilkins, Amy C.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 281 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11203300
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ISBN:0226898482
9780226898483
1281966819
9781281966810
9780226898421
9780226898438
0226898423
0226898431
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index.
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Summary: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 outreĢ 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?s intimate ethnography of these three subcultures reveals a complex tug-of-war between the demands of race, class, and gender in.
Other form:Print version: Wilkins, Amy C. Wannabes, goths, and Christians. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008