Growing up postmodern: neoliberism and the war on the young

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: What's Left of Modernity? Ronald Strickland; 2. ""A Caste, a Culture, a Market"": Youth, Marketing, and Lifestyle in Postwar America Bill Osgerby; 3. The War on the Young: Corporate Culture, Schooling, and the Politics of ""Zero Tolerance"" Henry A. Giroux; 4. Richard Price and the Ordeal of the Postmodern City Jerry Phillips; 5. ""Remorseless Young Predators"": The Bottom Line of ""Caging Children"" Gary L. Smith.;This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resis.