Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents

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ISBN: 9780805846669 | 0805846662
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/23/2004

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This book provides a description and analysis of how adolescent students representing diverse racial, ethnic, social class, sexual and gender locations navigate American cultural crosscurrents in urban and suburban public high schools. It includes extens

Preface	p. xi
New Age for Coming of Age	p. 1
(Post)Anthropology	p. 3
Framework for Study	p. 5
Identity Formation	p. 6
Community Integration	p. 8
Fieldwork	p. 12
Site Selection	p. 12
Data Collection	p. 13
Reflexivity and Literary Tropes	p. 16
Surface Depths	p. 18
Jefferson High	p. 19
JHS Corridors	p. 20
JHS Classrooms	p. 23
Ridgewood High	p. 24
RHS Corridors	p. 26
RHS Classrooms	p. 30
Central City High	p. 31
CCH Corridors	p. 33
CCH Classrooms	p. 37
Economic Domain: Il/licit Pursuit of Mobility	p. 39
Discourses of Money and Occupational Gratification	p. 39
The Economic Self	p. 40
Dominant Currencies	p. 42
Hard Work Through Least Resistance	p. 42
Dominant Divisions of Labor	p. 47
Occupational Tracking	p. 51
Upper Tracks	p. 51
Vocational Tracks	p. 53
Liminal Prospects	p. 58
Technological Screen Age	p. 59
Equalizing Equal Opportunity	p. 62
Women's Work	p. 65
Fast Money, Instant Gratification	p. 70
The Underground Economy	p. 70
Hustlers' Guise	p. 72
Kinship Domain: Family (Dis)connections	p. 76
Family Traditions	p. 77
The Familial/Sexual Self	p. 79
Family Life in the Public (Re)making	p. 81
Local Family Worldviews	p. 84
Prescriptive Intent	p. 84
"Good" Family Connections	p. 85
In Defense of the "True" Self	p. 89
Education for Families' Sake	p. 91
Curriculum of Socially Efficient Family Management	p. 92
Dysfunctional Family Treatments	p. 95
Therapy for Better Family Functioning	p. 97
Popularity of Popular Sex	p. 100
Gender Antagonisms	p. 102
Teenage Parent Power	p. 102
Sexual Politics	p. 104
Family Among Friends	p. 106
Religious Domain: Freedom of/From Religion	p. 111
Theological Discourse	p. 112
The Religious Self	p. 113
Holding the Mainlines	p. 115
Protestant (S)elect	p. 115
Catholic Compliance	p. 119
Jewish Adaptations	p. 121
Liminal Religious Movements	p. 123
Secular Tide	p. 123
Attractions of the New/Ancient Age	p. 124
Keeping Faith With(in) Ethnic and Racial Communities	p. 126
Ethnic Havens of Hope	p. 126
Harbors of Racial Upliftment	p. 129
Localized Family/Religious Faith	p. 132
Sacrilege of the Sacred	p. 134
Faith in Schools	p. 135
Classroom Religious Voids	p. 135
Corridor Netherworlds and Sanctuaries	p. 137
Political Domain: Democracy and Domination	p. 142
The Political Self	p. 142
Dominant Ideo(logical) Leanings	p. 144
Cause for Interest in Political Movements	p. 150
Common Cause to Special Interests	p. 150
Rebels Without Good Cause	p. 152
Local Family Interests	p. 155
Democratic Education	p. 157
Pedagogical Legacies	p. 157
Politically Explicit/Implicit Lessons	p. 159
Domination and Everyday School Politics	p. 162
Ecology of Games	p. 163
Classroom Politics: Winning Losing Wars	p. 164
Corridor Politics: (Re)gaining Recognition	p. 167
Respectability and Reputation	p. 168
Manipulating the Mark	p. 173
Reaching Shore	p. 176
Particular Answers to a Perennial Question	p. 176
Working Through Crosscurrents	p. 176
School Transmission and Construction Sites	p. 179
Reflexive Look Back	p. 182
Endnotes	p. 187
References	p. 193
Appendix	p. 203
Author Index	p. 205
Subject Index	p. 209
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Coming of Age in U.S. High Schools: Economic, Kinship, Religious, and Political Crosscurrents

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