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American Subcultures

First  Edition©2018  New Edition Available Eric Rawson

ISBN:9781319102371

ISBN:9781319062033

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Looking into how subcultures define themselves and what the repercussions are for marginalized communities within our culture, American Subcultures addresses all the essential questions of discovery to teach you more about how these groups interact in our culture. With readings from psychologists, journalists, philosophers, sociologists, activists, and others key issues related to this topic are closely explored and addressed in a way that increases your understanding of this topic to write about it intelligently.

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Table of Contents

About The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series
Preface for Instructors
We’re All In. As Always.
Contents by Discipline
Contents by Theme
Contents by Rhetorical Purpose
Introduction for Students

Chapter One: What Is Life Like on the Margins?
Arlene Stein, from The Stranger Next Door
G. Beato, The Lords of Dogtown
Nina Strochlic, American Gypsies Are a Persecuted Minority That Is Starting to Fight Back
Immy Humes, A Life Apart: A Brief Introduction to Hasidism
Richard Stevick, Growing Up Amish: Building an Amish Identity
Tristan Ahtone, Native American Gangs
Teresa Gowan, from Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco

Chapter Two: How Do Subcultures Define Themselves?
Sinclair Bolden, The Real Real: The Five Ways Subcultures Self-Police Themselves Online
Anatole Broyard, A Portrait of the Hipster
Cosplay: Two Views: Linda Stasi, Syfy Looks at World of Make-Believe Reality in Heroes of Cosplay; Elisa Melendez, Cosplay Is Creative, Not Crazy
Sue-Ellen Case, Making Butch: An Historical Memoir of the 1970s
Edward Dolnick, Deafness as Culture
Hunter S. Thompson, from Hell’s Angels
BJ Gallagher, Military BRATS = Bright. Resilient. Active. Talented. Successful.
William Finnegan, The Unwanted

Chapter Three: How Do Subcultures Challenge Authority?
Bruce Levine, Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
Alex Forman, San Francisco Style: The Diggers and the Love Revolution
Lydia Crafts, Muhammad Rocked the Casbah
Kristen Schilt, The Appropriation and Packaging of Riot Grrrl Politics
Ariel Climer, Riding to Resist: L.A. Bicyclists Brave Death to Empower Communities
Ross Haenfler, Hip Hop – "Doing" Gender and Race in Subcultures
Dana Goodyear, Raw Deal
George Gurley, Pleasures of the Fur

Chapter Four: What Values Do Subcultures Share with Mainstream America?
James Dowd and Laura Dowd, The Center Holds
Leslie Heywood, from Building Otherwise: Bodybuilding as Immersive Practice
Travis Culley, from The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
Scott Anderson, The Polygamists
Kim Murphy, The American Redoubt: Where Survivalists Plan to Survive
Bob Frost, Low and Slow: The History of Lowriders
Glenden Brown, Femininity and Toughness: What Rodeo Queens Tell Us about America
Douglas Haddow, Hipsters: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Chapter Five: What Happens When Subcultures Go Mainstream?
Cody C. Delistraty, Commercializing the Counterculture
Brett Scott, The Hacker Hacked
Mark Stryker, A Street Art Culture Clash as Graffiti Goes Mainstream
Michaelangelo Matos, How the Internet Transformed the American Rave Scene
Brittany Julious, The State of Black Subcultures in 21st Century America
Patton Oswalt, Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die
Dylan Clark, The Death and Life of Punk, The Last Subculture

Sentence Guides for Academic Writers

Index of Authors and Titles

Eric Rawson

Eric Rawson teaches writing at the University of Virginia, after a long career at the University of Southern California. In addition to his work in rhetoric, he has published widely in the fields of sound studies, modern poetry, and crime fiction. He holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Ph.D. from USC.