Sunaina Maira is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis. Elisabeth Soep teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Producer and the Education Director of Youth Radio.

"Comprised largely of cultural studies-influenced ethnographies of young people in various locations around the world, this collection of timely and provocative studies moves beyond the familiar and easy tropes of young person as urban, multitasking, irreverent, and technologically savvy. Instead, the reader is introduced to a variety of young people, with considerable attention paid to the social, institutional, cultural, and economic structures that concretize spaces of possibility and nonpossibility for them."-Anthropology and Education Quarterly

• Foreword-George LipsitzIntroduction-Sunaina Maira and Elisabeth SoepPART I. DOCUMENTS AND TAGS1. Straight Outta Mogadishu: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices Among Somali Youth in North American High Schools-Murray Forman2. Gangs and Their Walls-Ralph Cintron3. Race Bending: "Mixed" Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California-Mica Pollock4. The Intimate and the Imperial: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11-Sunaina MairaPART II. MOVEMENTS AND OUTBREAKS5. The Amway Connection: How Transnational Ideas of Beauty and Money Affect Northern Thai Girls' Perceptions of Their Future Options-Ida Fadzillah6. Homies Unidos: International Barrio Warriors Waging Peace on Two Fronts-Gustavo Adolfo Guerra VÁsquez7. Globalizing Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone-Susan SheplerPART III. ICONS AND RETAKES8. "Jackie Chan Is Nobody, and So Am I": Juvenile Fan Culture and the Construction of Transnational Male Identity in the Tamil Diaspora-Alexandra Schneider9. Authenticating Practices: Producing Realness, Performing Youth-Nicole R. Fleetwood10. Making Hard-Core Masculinity: Teenage Boys Playing House-Elisabeth Soep11. Bad Boys: Abstractions of Difference and the Politics of Youth "Deviance"-Tidd R. RamlowList of ContributorsNotesReferencesAcknowledgments

Sunaina Maira is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis. Elisabeth Soep teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Producer and the Education Director of Youth Radio.

"Comprised largely of cultural studies-influenced ethnographies of young people in various locations around the world, this collection of timely and provocative studies moves beyond the familiar and easy tropes of young person as urban, multitasking, irreverent, and technologically savvy. Instead, the reader is introduced to a variety of young people, with considerable attention paid to the social, institutional, cultural, and economic structures that concretize spaces of possibility and nonpossibility for them."-Anthropology and Education Quarterly

• Foreword-George LipsitzIntroduction-Sunaina Maira and Elisabeth SoepPART I. DOCUMENTS AND TAGS1. Straight Outta Mogadishu: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices Among Somali Youth in North American High Schools-Murray Forman2. Gangs and Their Walls-Ralph Cintron3. Race Bending: "Mixed" Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California-Mica Pollock4. The Intimate and the Imperial: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11-Sunaina MairaPART II. MOVEMENTS AND OUTBREAKS5. The Amway Connection: How Transnational Ideas of Beauty and Money Affect Northern Thai Girls' Perceptions of Their Future Options-Ida Fadzillah6. Homies Unidos: International Barrio Warriors Waging Peace on Two Fronts-Gustavo Adolfo Guerra VÁsquez7. Globalizing Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone-Susan SheplerPART III. ICONS AND RETAKES8. "Jackie Chan Is Nobody, and So Am I": Juvenile Fan Culture and the Construction of Transnational Male Identity in the Tamil Diaspora-Alexandra Schneider9. Authenticating Practices: Producing Realness, Performing Youth-Nicole R. Fleetwood10. Making Hard-Core Masculinity: Teenage Boys Playing House-Elisabeth Soep11. Bad Boys: Abstractions of Difference and the Politics of Youth "Deviance"-Tidd R. RamlowList of ContributorsNotesReferencesAcknowledgments

Sunaina Maira is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis. Elisabeth Soep teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Producer and the Education Director of Youth Radio.

"Comprised largely of cultural studies-influenced ethnographies of young people in various locations around the world, this collection of timely and provocative studies moves beyond the familiar and easy tropes of young person as urban, multitasking, irreverent, and technologically savvy. Instead, the reader is introduced to a variety of young people, with considerable attention paid to the social, institutional, cultural, and economic structures that concretize spaces of possibility and nonpossibility for them."-Anthropology and Education Quarterly

• Foreword-George LipsitzIntroduction-Sunaina Maira and Elisabeth SoepPART I. DOCUMENTS AND TAGS1. Straight Outta Mogadishu: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices Among Somali Youth in North American High Schools-Murray Forman2. Gangs and Their Walls-Ralph Cintron3. Race Bending: "Mixed" Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California-Mica Pollock4. The Intimate and the Imperial: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11-Sunaina MairaPART II. MOVEMENTS AND OUTBREAKS5. The Amway Connection: How Transnational Ideas of Beauty and Money Affect Northern Thai Girls' Perceptions of Their Future Options-Ida Fadzillah6. Homies Unidos: International Barrio Warriors Waging Peace on Two Fronts-Gustavo Adolfo Guerra VÁsquez7. Globalizing Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone-Susan SheplerPART III. ICONS AND RETAKES8. "Jackie Chan Is Nobody, and So Am I": Juvenile Fan Culture and the Construction of Transnational Male Identity in the Tamil Diaspora-Alexandra Schneider9. Authenticating Practices: Producing Realness, Performing Youth-Nicole R. Fleetwood10. Making Hard-Core Masculinity: Teenage Boys Playing House-Elisabeth Soep11. Bad Boys: Abstractions of Difference and the Politics of Youth "Deviance"-Tidd R. RamlowList of ContributorsNotesReferencesAcknowledgments