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Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm: Critical Questions of Youth, Gender and Race On-Road
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‘On-road’ is a complex term used by young people to describe street-based subculture and a general way of being. Featuring the voices of young people, this collection explores how race, class and gender dynamics shape this aspect of youth culture. With young people on-road often becoming criminalised due to interlocking structural inequalities, this book looks beyond concerns about gangs and presents empirical research from scholars and activists who work with and study the social lives, relationality and subjectivities of young people. This collection is unique in the way that many chapters take an explicitly feminist, anti-racist and intersectional view to understand how young people navigate marginalised lives in patriarchal and White-supremacist societies. Music is threaded throughout the book as both a method and object of study, as well as the cause of contentious criminalisation. This book addresses the concerns of practitioners, policy makers and scholars by analysing aspects and misinterpretations of the shifting realities of young people’s urban life.
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