Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War.
Directly confronting the constellation of advantages and disadvantages white, black, Hispanic, and Asian teens face today, this work provides a framework for understanding the relationship between socialization in adolescence and social ...
-The pressure to perform and the weight of the model minority myth. -The proximity to whiteness (for many) and the resulting privileges. -The desexualizing, exoticizing, and fetishizing of their bodies. -The microaggressions.
Miller, Joanne. 1988. “Jobs and Work.” Pp. 327–359 in Neil J. Smelser, ed., Handbook of Sociology. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage. Miller, Joanne, Carmi Schooler, Melvin L. Kohn, and Karen A. Miller. ... Chaimun Lee, and Michael D. Finch.
Beginning from this assertion, Emily A. Murphy traces the ways that youth began to embody national hopes and fears at a time when the United States was transitioning to a new position of world power.
A moving exploration of what it means to be an American born and reared abroad
Growing Up in America offers substantial and dramatic evidence that the history of childhood has come of age.
Describes what life was like for young people moving to and living on the western frontier.
These tales of Papa and his children are sometimes poignant, but more often humorous and a testament to a family that thrived in spite of the lash between Papa's old world values and the Americanization of his children.
A guide based on the author's popular Parade column suggests hundreds of activities, skills, and experiences that parents can apply to help their children experience classic upbringings. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.