Wannabes, Goths, and Christians
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Wannabes, Goths, and Christians

The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status

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The Boundaries of Sex, Style, and Status

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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 outré 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 gender in which transgressing in one realm often means conforming to expectations in another. Subcultures help young people, especially women, navigate these connecting territories by offering them different sexual strategies: wannabes cross racial lines, goths break taboos by becoming involved with multiple partners, and Christians forego romance to develop their bond with God. Avoiding sanctimonious hysteria over youth gone astray, Wilkins meets these kids on their own terms, and the result is a perceptive and provocative portrait of the structure of young lives.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780226898483
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences
introduction
23
In
chapter
seven,
I
analyze
the
lives
of
the
wannabes
themselves.
I
take
apart
the
caricature
drawn
by
the
youth
in
the
previous
chapter
by
showing
how
their
identity
strategy
is
a
logical
response
to
the
contradic-
tions
and
limitations
they
experience
in
their
own
lives.
For
these
women,
“wannabehood”
solves
a
range
of
problems
they
experience
because
of
their
particular
race,
class,
and
gender
identities.
Nevertheless,
wannabes
all
run
into
the
same
sets
of
problems
in
their
negotiation
strategies,
a
problem
I
attribute
in
part
to
the
heterosexual
focus
of
their
strategy
and
to
the
dearth
of
available
racial
discourses
with
which
they
can
make
sense
of
their
lives.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. Introduction: Gender, Race, Class, and Cultural Projects
  4. 2. From Geek to Freak
  5. 3. So Full of Myself as a Chick
  6. 4. Just Good People
  7. 5. Abstinence
  8. Puerto Rican Wannabes
  9. 6. Why Don’t They Act Like Who They Really Are?
  10. 7. The Gendered Limits of Racial Crossover
  11. 8. Conclusions, Contradictions, and Collisions
  12. Works Cited
  13. Index