Cultural Meaning and Hip-Hop Fashion in the African-American Male Youth Subculture of New Orleans

Autor/inn/en	Baxter, Vern Kenneth; Marina, Peter
Titel	Cultural Meaning and Hip-Hop Fashion in the African-American Male Youth Subculture of New Orleans
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth Studies, 11 (2008) 2, S.93-113 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-6261
Schlagwörter	African American Children; Youth; Subcultures; High Schools; Social Behavior; Adjustment (to Environment); Success; Clothing; Research Methodology; Ethnography; Power Structure; Social Control; Correctional Institutions; Resistance (Psychology); Males; Louisiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Child; Children; Afroamerikaner; Kind; Kinder; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Subculture; Subkultur; High school; Oberschule; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Erfolg; Kleidung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Ethnografie; Soziale Kontrolle; Jugendstrafvollzug; Resistenz; Male; Männliches Geschlecht
Abstract	This paper reports results from an ethnographic study of African-American youth subculture in a New Orleans high school. The paper contends that youth subculture remains an important construct to situate stylistic resistance among subaltern groups like urban black youth that confront demands for conformity from representatives of institutional authority with alternative cultural solutions. The core argument is that resistance to demands for conformity among members of this subculture stands as a challenge to institutional power enforced by agents of media, school, police, and the prison that label as deviant stylistic expressions such as wearing sagging black pants and braided hairstyles. However, care must be taken not to reify youth subculture affiliation as overly inclusive and resistant, and instead focus on the variable commitment of participants to dominant culture or subculture. Subcultural styles like wearing sagging black pants manifest an ambiguous cocktail of resistance and acceptance of hegemonic ideals and reveal the contradictory fashion and behavioral codes of contending status orders that validate identities. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10