Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)

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The 1960s are recurrently regarded as to be the beginning of a distinct “teenage culture” in The us. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock ‘n’ roll in reality mark the start of adolescent defiance? In Inventing Brand new Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She argues that the idea that of the “generation gap”—a stereotypical complaint against American teens—in truth originated with the division between immigrant parents and their American-born or -raised children. Melding a uniquely urban immigrant sensibility with commercialized consumer culture and a youth-oriented ethos characterized by fun, leisure, and overt sexual behavior, these young people formed a new identity that provided the framework for nowadays’s concepts of teenage way of life.Addressing the intersecting issues of urban life, race, gender, sexuality, and class consciousness, Inventing Brand new Adolescence is an authoritative and engaging have a look at a pivotal point in American history and the intriguing, complicated, and still very pertinent teenage identity that emerged from it.

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