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Emasculate

Reciprocal and Nonreciprocal Language Use,ocal Italian American community, and the chapter underscores the narrative connection between Guido and urban ethnic minority culture. Mass media discourses that problematized ethnic Italian culture reflect shifting agendas in the city’s social, political, and economic landscape.

Substance-Abuse

Becoming Guido: Identifying a Youth Subculture,ance in the city as a leisure/consumption activity, a hybrid or remix youth culture (Hebdige 1979; Maira 2002) characterized by the “blending of traditional cultural forms into new youth-based styles and practices” Bucholtz (2002: 544). The identity symbol transacts a contested identity inside as well as across the ethnic boundary.

Reverie

The Local Struggle for Cool,ts. The ordered segmentation of local urban space is thrown into relief in a relationship with Black youth that is complicated by a coveted youth style. The chapter draws heavily on an ethnography of a “discursive” online scene where scarce material and nonmaterial rewards are grounded in offline urban “formations”.

引导

GUIDOVILLE: Labeling Italian Americans Deviant,ocal Italian American community, and the chapter underscores the narrative connection between Guido and urban ethnic minority culture. Mass media discourses that problematized ethnic Italian culture reflect shifting agendas in the city’s social, political, and economic landscape.

GEAR

Performing Style,roject to engage popular American culture for a signature style of consumption within local youth style markets. The chapter draws on ethnographic research, beginning in the late 1980s, following a trajectory grounded in a local youth style tradition and increasingly oriented to hedonistic and commodified consumption.

Affection

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Theorizing Italian American Youth Culture,d historical contexts, allowing for agency and change. A Guido youth subculture emerged in the 1980s as a collective turn to popular American culture .. Italian American youth culture is a new .—“sets of relationships” established over time to meet the social and cultural needs of second-generation youth (Cornell and Hartmann 86).

扫兴

A Local Italian American Youth Style Tradition: Anticipating Guido,little mention of a youth formation at the intersection of ethnicity and American popular culture and there is no sign of an Italian American subculture, a youth formation with clear defined boundaries. The second part of the chapter fills in the gaps in New York City historically, delineating . leading up to the coalescence of Guido in the 1970s.