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Author Warikoo, Natasha Kumar, 1973-

Title Balancing acts : youth culture in the global city / Natasha Kumar Warikoo.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 224 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Youth -- Social life and customs -- Cross-cultural studies.
Youth -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Children of immigrants -- Cross-cultural studies.
Children of immigrants.
High school students -- Social life and customs -- Cross-cultural studies.
High school students -- Social life and customs.
High school students.
Assimilation (Sociology)
Assimilation (Sociology)
Academic achievement -- Cross-cultural studies.
Academic achievement.
Group identity -- Cross-cultural studies.
Group identity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books -- Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Youth.
Other Form: Print version: Warikoo, Natasha Kumar, 1973- Balancing acts. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520262102 (DLC) 2010013984 (OCoLC)607655705
ISBN 9780520947795 (electronic book)
0520947797 (electronic book)
9780520262102 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520262107 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520262119 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520262115 (paperback ; alkaline paper)