Inventing Modern Adolescence : The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America /
Chinn, Sarah E.
Inventing Modern Adolescence : The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America / Sarah E. Chinn. - 1 online resource (216 p.) : 29 illustrations - Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She argues that the concept of the "generation gap"-a stereotypical complaint against American teens-actually originated with the division between immigrant parents and their American-born or -raised children. Melding a uniquely urban immigrant sensibility with commercialized consumer culture and a youth-oriented ethos characterized by fun, leisure, and overt sexual behavior, these young people formed a new identity that provided the framework for today's concepts of teenage lifestyle.Addressing the intersecting issues of urban life, race, gender, sexuality, and class consciousness, Inventing Modern Adolescence is an authoritative and engaging look at a pivotal point in American history and the intriguing, complicated, and still very pertinent teenage identity that emerged from it.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813543093 9780813545950
10.36019/9780813545950 doi
Adolescence--History--20th century--United States--USA--USA--United States.
Adolescence--History--United States--20th century.
Children of immigrants--History--20th century--United States.
Children of immigrants--History--United States--20th century.
Conflict of generations--History--20th century--United States.
Conflict of generations--History--United States--20th century.
HISTORY / General.
HQ792.U5 / C45 2009eb (Online)
Inventing Modern Adolescence : The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America / Sarah E. Chinn. - 1 online resource (216 p.) : 29 illustrations - Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She argues that the concept of the "generation gap"-a stereotypical complaint against American teens-actually originated with the division between immigrant parents and their American-born or -raised children. Melding a uniquely urban immigrant sensibility with commercialized consumer culture and a youth-oriented ethos characterized by fun, leisure, and overt sexual behavior, these young people formed a new identity that provided the framework for today's concepts of teenage lifestyle.Addressing the intersecting issues of urban life, race, gender, sexuality, and class consciousness, Inventing Modern Adolescence is an authoritative and engaging look at a pivotal point in American history and the intriguing, complicated, and still very pertinent teenage identity that emerged from it.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813543093 9780813545950
10.36019/9780813545950 doi
Adolescence--History--20th century--United States--USA--USA--United States.
Adolescence--History--United States--20th century.
Children of immigrants--History--20th century--United States.
Children of immigrants--History--United States--20th century.
Conflict of generations--History--20th century--United States.
Conflict of generations--History--United States--20th century.
HISTORY / General.
HQ792.U5 / C45 2009eb (Online)