Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (500 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814799310 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 257 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Best is Professor of the Sociology at George Mason University. Amy L. She is also the editor of Representing Youth: Methodological Issues in Critical Youth Studies. She is author of Prom Night Youth, Schools and Popular Culture, which was selected for the 2002 American Educational Studi
“In Fast Cars, Cool Rides, Amy Best takes the inside lane on how and why young people use their cars as a means of cultural expression. Whether the school parking lot, auto-shop class, or the San Jose cruising scene, and whether the goal is personal freedom, racial solidarity, masculine power, or feminine rebelliousness, the car is the vehicle for the job, affording youth the symbolic and material means to solidify their identities within the context of global consumer culture. An intelligent, well-written book on kids and their cars; buckle up and take this ride.”-Laura Grindstaff,author of The Money Shot: Trash, Class, and the Making of TV Talk Shows“How pleasantly jarring to be invited to enter Santa Clara Street, to feel the heat of the summer, to smell the alcohol on the breaths of the youth, to hear the bottles breaking on the sidewalk and to, most importantly, be treated to a fine analysis of the
"Good" according to funnyaznteen. The book was in perfect condition and seems like it will be a good read. I love fast cars and cool rides, so this will be interesting to analyze from a sociological standpoint.
Welcome to Santa Clara Street in San Jose, California, where every weekend kids come to cruise late at night, riding their cars slow and low. Encompassing everything from learning to drive to getting one’s license, from cruising to customizing, from racing to buying one's first car, Best shows that never before have cars played such an important role in the lives of America's youth as they do today. Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a cool ride.. Drawing on interviews with over 100 young men and women, aged 15-24, and five years of research—cruising hot spots, sitting in on auto shop class, attending car shows—Best explores the fast-paced world of kids and their cars. Bass booms from custom speakers, pick-up trucks boast lowered suspensions, chrome rims reflect stoplights, and bare arms dangle from open windows. On the surrounding, less-traveled streets you can also find young men racing customized cars to see who has the "go," not just the "show." And, in the daylight hours, in a nearby suburb, you might find a brand new SUV parked in the driveway, a parents'