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Readings
Studying Youth Rebellion: General
Themes:
Reading: Graebner, Coming of Age in Buffalo,
Chapter One
Youth in American Culture: An Overview
Readings: Kett, 'The Age of Adolescence' (on reserve);
Spring, 'Youth Culture in the United States' (on reserve)
Youth Culture and the Media
Reading: Douglas, 'I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar' (on
reserve); Ellis, 'Why Kids Are Ruining America' (CP); Mamis, 'The High
School Underground Press' (CP)
Youth Culture and Popular Culture
Reading: Gilbert, 'Juvenile Delinquency Films' (on reserve)
The Wayward Girl: 'Sex Delinquency' as Youth
Rebellion
Reading: Odem, 'Teenage Girls, Sexuality, and
Working-Class Parents' (on reserve); Alexander, 'The Only Thing I Wanted
Was Freedom' (on reserve)
The Flapper: Bohemianism as Youth Rebellion
Reading: Leuchtenberg, 'The Revolution in Morals' (on
reserve); Fitzgerald, 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' (CP); Bliven, 'Flapper
Jane' (CP)
High School: Crucible of Culture, Cradle of
Rebellion
Reading: Palladino, 'The High School Age' (on reserve);
Fass, excerpt from The Damned and the Beautiful (on reserve);
Leff, 'Inside an American High School' (CP)
Reefer Madness (1936)
Reading: Reese, 'Reefer Madness and A Clockwork Orange'
(on reserve); Carroll, excerpts from The Basketball Diaries (CP)
Cafeteria Commies: Politics as Youth Rebellion
Reading: Cohen, 'Cafeteria Commies' (on reserve);
Chernin, 'The Third Story My Mother Tells' (CP)
The Zoot Suit Riots
Reading: Scott, 'The Sleepy Lagoon Case' and 'The Zoot
Suit Riots' (on reserve); Griffith, excerpt from American Me (CP)
The Juvenile Delinquent in 1950s America
Reading: Graebner, Coming of Age in Buffalo
(complete); Gilbert, 'The Great Fear' (on reserve)
The Family and Delinquency
Reading: Gilbert, 'Family Culture' (on reserve);
Salisbury, excerpts from The Shook-Up Generation
Rebel Chic: Youth Culture and Consumer Culture
Reading: Palladino, 'The Advertising Age' (on reserve);
Wolfe, 'The Kandy-Kolored, Tangerine-Flake, Streamline Baby' (CP); Wice,
'Generalization X' (CP)
The Beat Generation
Reading: Holmes, 'This is the Beat Generation' and
'Philosophy of the Beat Generation' (on reserve); Kerouac, excerpts from
On the Road and The Dharma Bums (CP); Ferlinghetti, 'I
Am Waiting' (CP)
The Civil Rights Movement
Reading: Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties
(begin); Moody, excerpt from Coming of Age in Mississippi' (CP);
'Some Letters from Mississippi' (CP)
The New Left
Reading: Anderson, Movement (continue); SDS,
excerpt from 'The Port Huron Statement' (CP); CSCC, 'Columbia Liberated' (CP)
The Counterculture
Reading: Anderson,Movement (continue, esp.
Chapter Five)
Ethnic Renewal and Youth Rebellion
Reading: Anderson, Movement (complete, with
emphasis on Chapter Six); Carmichael, 'What We Want' (CP); Crow Dog, 'We
AIM Not to Please' (CP); Steiner, 'The Chicanos' (CP)
Radical Feminism"
Reading: Willis, 'Radical Feminism and Feminist
Radicalism' (on reserve); Morgan, ed., excerpts from Sisterhood is
Powerful (CP)
Youth Liberation
Reading: Friedenberg, 'The Image of the Adolescent
Minority' (on reserve); Birmingham, 'Discovering the Underground' (CP);
Youth Liberation Front, 'We Do Not Recognize Their Right to Control Us'
and 'Youth Liberation Program' (CP)
Generation X
Reading: Coupland, Generation X; Martin, 'The
Whiny Generation' (CP)