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: 9780742516519
• ISBN10: 0742516512
• Format: Paperback
• 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	p. ix
Introduction: What's Left of Modernity?	p. 1
"A Caste, a Culture, a Market": Youth, Marketing, and Lifestyle in Postwar America	p. 15
The War on the Young: Corporate Culture, Schooling, and the Politics of "Zero Tolerance"	p. 35
Richard Price and the Ordeal of the Postmodern City	p. 47
"Remorseless Young Predators": The Bottom Line of "Caging Children"	p. 65
Growing Up Incarcerated: The Prison-Industrial Complex and Literacy as Resistance	p. 87
Ideology and Interpellation in the First-Person Shooter	p. 107
Trouble Child: Barthes's Imagined Youth	p. 123
The Big Business of Surfing's Oceanic Feeling: Thirty Years of Tracks Magazine	p. 141
Female Adolescence and Its Discontents	p. 169
The Mis/Education of Righteous Babes: Popular Culture and Third-Wave Feminism	p. 181
Post-'68: Theory Is in the Streets	p. 205
To Be Young, Countercultural, and Black: Racial Pluralism, Countercultures, and African American Activism of the 1960s	p. 221
Index	p. 253
About the Contributors	p. 261
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.