Wannabes, Goths, and Christians The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status

Name: Wannabes, Goths, and Christians The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status
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ISBN: 9780226898438

ISBN-10: 0226898431

ISBN-13: 9780226898438

Edition: 2008

Authors: Amy C. Wilkins

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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 outré 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 which transgressing in one realm often means conforming to expectations in another. Subcultures…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Gender, Race, Class, and Cultural Projects



From Geek to Freak



So Full of Myself as a Chick



Just Good People



Abstinence


Puerto Rican Wannabes



Why Don't They Act Like Who They Really Are?



The Gendered Limits of Racial Crossover



Conclusions, Contradictions, and Collisions


Works Cited


Index