American Youth
Title | American Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Phil LaMarche |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2011-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307369811 |
American Youth is a controlled, essential, and powerful tale of a teenager in southern New England who is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a fatal firearms accident in his home. This tragedy earns him the unwelcome admiration of a sinister group of boys at his school and a girl associated with them. Set in a town riven by social and ideological tensions – an old rural culture in conflict with newcomers – this is a classic portrait of a young man struggling with the idea of identity and responsibility in an America ill at ease with itself.
Asian American Youth
Title | Asian American Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Lee |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780415946698 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Muslim American Youth
Title | Muslim American Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Selcuk R. Sirin |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2008-07-12 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0814740391 |
Muslim American Youth offers a critical conceptual framework to aid in understanding Muslim American identity formation processes, a framework which can also be applied to other groups of marginalized and immigrant youth. In addition, through their innovative data and analytic methods the authors provide an antidote to "qualitative vs. quantitative" arguments that have unnecessarily captured much time and energy in psychology and other behavioral sciences. Muslim American Youth provides a much-needed roadmap for those seeking to understand how Muslim youth and other groups of immigrant youth negotiate their identities as Americans.--Book jacket.
White American Youth
Title | White American Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Picciolini |
Publisher | Hachette Books |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2017-10-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0316522910 |
As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist. Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose themselves in a culture of hatred and violence and how the criminal networks they forge terrorize and divide our nation. The story begins when Picciolini found himself stumbling through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music. There, he was recruited by a notorious white power skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become an expert in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. When his mentor was sent to prison, sixteen-year-old Picciolini took over the man's role as the leader of an infamous neo-Nazi skinhead group. Seduced by the power he accrued through intimidation, and swept up in the rhetoric he had adopted, Picciolini worked to grow an army of extremists. He used music as a recruitment tool, launching his own propaganda band that performed at white power rallies around the world. But slowly, as he started a family of his own and a job that for the first time brought him face to face with people from all walks of life, he began to recognize the cracks in his hateful ideology. Then a shocking loss at the hands of racial violence changed his life forever, and Picciolini realized too late the full extent of the harm he'd caused. "Simultaneously horrifying and redemptive" (AlterNet), White American Youth examines how radicalism and racism can conquer a person's way of life and how we can work together to stop those ideologies from tearing our world apart. *An earlier edition of this book was published as Romantic Violence
Great American Youth
Title | Great American Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Scott |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2011-04-04 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1456760440 |
Based on actual events, this soul-gripping tale is an account of survival in the urban jungle of Chicago, in the 1980s. While embarked on his own street-journey, Michael Scott enters a world in which a band of brothers are locked in a desperate engagement, an Alamo-like siege of their hood. Amidst turbulent conditions, the narrator gives us all a ticket to ride next to him on this roller coaster ride, with its twist and turns of horror and frustration, suspense and humor. Following in the tradition of profound gang tales such as "The Outsiders" and "West Side Story," this must-read book goes beneath the hardcore surface to show the struggle of the human spirit.
Flappers 2 Rappers
Title | Flappers 2 Rappers PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Dalzell |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2012-03-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0486121623 |
Entertaining, highly readable book pulses with the vernacular of young Americans from the end of the 19th century to the present. Alphabetical listings for each decade, plus fascinating sidebars about language and culture.
Teen Movies
Title | Teen Movies PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Shary |
Publisher | Wallflower Press |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781904764496 |
Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen is a detailed look at the depiction of teens on film and its impact throughout film's history. Timothy Shary looks at the development of the teen movie - the rebellion, the romance, the sex and the horror - up to contemporary portrayals of ever-changing youth. Films studied include Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Splendor in the Grass (1961), Carrie (1976), The Breakfast Club (1985), and American Pie (1999).