Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their CarsNYU Press, 2006 - 257 Seiten Bass booms from custom speakers, pick-up trucks boast lowered suspensions, chrome rims reflect stoplights, and bare arms dangle from open windows. Welcome to Santa Clara Street in San Jose, California, where every weekend kids come to cruise late at night, riding their cars slow and low. On the surrounding, less-traveled streets you can also find young men racing customized cars to see who has the "go," not just the "show." And, in the daylight hours, in a nearby suburb, you might find a brand new SUV parked in the driveway, a parents' Sweet 16 present. |
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... construct their identities within the overlapping spaces between commodity culture and youth culture, private life ... constructed by individuals because it is no longer given or ascribed, but in the most bewildering of circumstance: not ...
... construct specific ways of being and becoming in a particular moment in time and space. At the center of this project are in-depth and focus group interviews with just over one hundred young men and women, representing different ...
... construct a coherent narrative of ethnic identity and cultural belonging across generations through cruising, identifying the difficulties of this project as these young men and women are forced to confront changes to the Chicano ...
... construct a coherent cultural identity, and symbolically struggle against the repeated assaults on the collective soul of their community.17 In cities all over the United States, many Chicano youth embrace the lowrider as an object to ...
... construct and reconstruct a shared sense of history, location and ethnicity.21 For the young Chicanos/as of San Jose, Santa Clara Street is ground zero.22 Lowriding has long had a solid presence in the downtown area of San Jose, a city ...
Inhalt
27 | |
2 | 56 |
3 | 80 |
Car Privileges | 109 |
The Road to Nowhere | 135 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Appendix | 173 |
Notes | 191 |
References | 231 |
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