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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... role in this project. The classroom served as an exhilarating intellectual space for me to share ideas as I moved through this project. A number of my students, most from Silicon Valley, provided valuable information, contacts, and ...
... role in creating. As Frank Furedi, author of Culture of Fear, insightfully remarked, “To be at risk is no longer about what you do but who you are.”22 These policies have tremendous consequences for how youth participate in their ...
... role in the lives of youth, organizing their social spaces and social activities, as they forcefully attach themselves to signs that already register as repositories for youth culture and style.42 Volkswagen joined forces with the ...
... role in our lives. I also use car culture to refer to various subcultural groups and spaces; by subculture I mean a loosely organized group of youth who share an appreciation for particular cultural styles and participate in a set of ...
... role gender plays in car cruising, chapter 2 investigates young women's participation in an activity that is heavily ... roles that gender and class play in these negotiations. Chapter 5 investigates the ways in which kids take up the ...
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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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