Growing Up Postmodern Neoliberalism and the War on the Young

by Strickland, Ronald; Drake, Jennifer; Giroux, Henry A.; Henderson, Margaret; Hubler, Angela E.; Jones, David M.; Kleinfeld, Elizabeth; Kurtz, Andrew; Osgerby, Bill; Phillips, Jerry; Scheie, Tim; Smith, Gary L.; Taylor, Astra

• ISBN13: 9780742516502
• ISBN10: 0742516504
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-25
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: What's Left of Modernity?	1	(14)
Ronald Strickland
``A Caste, a Culture, a Market'': Youth, Marketing, and Lifestyle in Postwar America	15	(20)
Bill Osgerby
The War on the Young: Corporate Culture, Schooling, and the Politics of ``Zero Tolerance''	35	(12)
Henry A. Giroux
Richard Price and the Ordeal of the Postmodern City	47	(18)
Jerry Phillips
``Remorseless Young Predators'': The Bottom Line of ``Caging Children''	65	(22)
Gary L. Smith
Growing Up Incarcerated: The Prison-Industrial Complex and Literacy as Resistance	87	(20)
Elizabeth Kleinfeld
Ideology and Interpellation in the First-Person Shooter	107	(16)
Andrew Kurtz
Trouble Child: Barthes's Imagined Youth	123	(18)
Tim Scheie
The Big Business of Surfing's Oceanic Feeling: Thirty Years of Tracks Magazine	141	(28)
Margaret Henderson
Female Adolescence and Its Discontents	169	(12)
Angela E. Hubler
The Mis/Education of Righteous Babes: Popular Culture and Third-Wave Feminism	181	(24)
Jennifer Drake
Post-'68: Theory Is in the Streets	205	(16)
Astra Taylor
To Be Young, Countercultural, and Black: Racial Pluralism, Countercultures, and African American Activism of the 1960s	221	(32)
David M. Jones
Index	253	(8)
About the Contributors	261