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Cultural Matrix : Understanding Black Youth Paperback Orlando Pat

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Book Title
Cultural Matrix : Understanding Black Youth Paperback Orlando Pat
ISBN
9780674659971

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
067465997X
ISBN-13
9780674659971
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038818503

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
688 Pages
Publication Name
Cultural Matrix : Understanding Black Youth
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Subject
Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / Urban, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type
Textbook
Author
Orlando Patterson
Subject Area
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.7 in

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Scholarly & Professional
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This pathbreaking book examines an essential topic that men and women in the street discuss but that social scientists too often ignore: the contrast between the economic and social plight of black youth, on the one hand, and their cultural creativity, on the other. Jam-packed with carefully researched essays by outstanding scholars from a broad array of disciplines, this volume, edited by the ever-fearless Orlando Patterson , is crowned by his call to take culture seriously and his brilliant demonstration of just how to do so. Must reading for students and scholars of urban black America, The Cultural Matrix is an invaluable resource, one to be pondered and savored.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.235089/96
Synopsis
The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel an American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. This interdisciplinary work explains how a complex matrix of cultures influences black youth., The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. Despite school dropout rates over 40 percent, a third spending time in prison, chronic unemployment, and endemic violence, black youth are among the most vibrant creators of popular culture in the world. They also espouse several deeply-held American values. To understand this conundrum, the authors bring culture back to the forefront of explanation, while avoiding the theoretical errors of earlier culture-of-poverty approaches and the causal timidity and special pleading of more recent ones. There is no single black youth culture, but a complex matrix of cultures--adapted mainstream, African-American vernacular, street culture, and hip-hop--that support and undermine, enrich and impoverish young lives. Hip-hop, for example, has had an enormous influence, not always to the advantage of its creators. However, its muscular message of primal honor and sensual indulgence is not motivated by a desire for separatism but by an insistence on sharing in the mainstream culture of consumption, power, and wealth. This interdisciplinary work draws on all the social sciences, as well as social philosophy and ethnomusicology, in a concerted effort to explain how culture, interacting with structural and environmental forces, influences the performance and control of violence, aesthetic productions, educational and work outcomes, familial, gender, and sexual relations, and the complex moral life of black youth.
LC Classification Number
E185.86.C978 2016
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