On college campuses and in high school halls, being white means being boring. Since whiteness is the mainstream, white kids lack a cultural identity that s exotic or worth flaunting. To remedy this, countless white youths across the country are now joining more outre subcultures like the Black- and Puerto Rican dominated hip-hop scene, the glamorously morose goth community, or an evangelical Christian organization whose members reject campus partying. Amy C. Wilkins s intimate ethnography of these three subcultures reveals a complex tug-of-war between the demands of race, class, and...
On college campuses and in high school halls, being white means being boring. Since whiteness is the mainstream, white kids lack a cultural identity t...
On college campuses and in high school halls, being white means being boring. Since whiteness is the mainstream, white kids lack a cultural identity that s exotic or worth flaunting. To remedy this, countless white youths across the country are now joining more outre subcultures like the Black- and Puerto Rican dominated hip-hop scene, the glamorously morose goth community, or an evangelical Christian organization whose members reject campus partying. Amy C. Wilkins s intimate ethnography of these three subcultures reveals a complex tug-of-war between the demands of race, class, and...
On college campuses and in high school halls, being white means being boring. Since whiteness is the mainstream, white kids lack a cultural identity t...
