Representing Youth

Amy L. Best is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. She is the author of Fast-Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines, and Social Ties, Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars, and the award-winning, Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture. She also edited Representing Youth: Methodological Issues in Critical Youth Studies.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAmy L. BestPart I Framing Youth: De?nitional Boundaries and Ambiguities1 Across a Great Gulf? Rebecca Raby2 "Label Jars Not People"Marc Flacks3 Grow 'em StrongMichael Ungar4 A Roof over Their HeadYvonne VissingPart II From the Field: Adults in Youth Worlds5 With a Capital "G": Gatekeepers and Gatekeeping in Research with Children Madeline Leonard6 Will the Least-Adult Please Stand Up? Life as "Older Sister Katy" in a Taiwanese Elementary School Kathryn Gold Hadley7 The Outsider Lurking Online: Adults Researching Youth Cybercultures Alyssa Richman8 Racing Age: Re?ections on Antiracist Research with Teenage Girls Jessica Karen Taft9 "What If a Guy Hits on You?": Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Age in Fieldwork with Adolescents C. J. PascoePart III Activating Youth: Youth Agency, Collaboration, and Representation10 Trouble on Memory Lane: Adults and Self-Retrospection in Researching Youth Sari Knopp Biklen11 Power-Puff Ethnography/Guerrilla Research: Children as Native Anthropologists Elizabeth Chin12 Performing Youth: Youth Agency and the Production of Knowledge in Community-Based Theater Stephani Etheridge Woodson13 Beyond "Straight" Interpretations: Researching Queer Youth Digital Video Susan DriverAbout the Contributors Index

A powerful and compelling book that represents cutting-edge new directions in critical youth studies. This is a passionate call for a critical moral consciousness that will create more humane spaces for today's youth in our complex global culture. - Norman K. Denzin,co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research In this volume, Amy Best offers critical youth studies an epistemological compass, a collection of essays that spans across nations, methods, sexualities, ethnicities, generations and age, reflecting provocatively on how we create knowledge with, for and by youth. This book promises to be a classic for the next generation of scholars perched to engage critically, respectfully, theoretically and provocatively with youth, to inscribe a twenty-first century signature on critical youth studies. - Michelle Fine,co-author of Working Method: Research and Social Justice Should be of value to researchers doing ethnographic field studies with youth. (Choice)