TOPIC: Youth Culture & Subgroups

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Center Developed Resources and Tools

Policy & Program Reports & Briefs

• Youth Risk Taking Behavior: The Role of Schools
• Youth Gangs and Schools

A Series of Information Resources on Youth Subcultures: Understanding Subgroups to Better Address Barriers to Learning & Improve Schools

• What is Youth Culture? A Brief Introduction
• Glossary of Terms Related to Youth Culture Subgroups
• Youth Subcultures: Annotated Bibliography and Related References
• About Youth Gangs
• About the Goth Youth Subculture
• About Hip Hop Youth Subculture
• About "Loners" and "Losers"
• About Jocks as a Youth Subculture
• About Emo Youth Subculture
• About Surfing and Skateboarding Youth Subcultures
• About the Cheerleading Youth Subculture
• About “Mean Girls” as a Youth Culture Subgroup
• About “Nerds” and “Geeks” as an Identified Subculture
• About "Preppies" as a Youth Culture Subgroup
• About Sexual Minority (LGBT) Youth Subculture
• Youth and Socially Interactive Technologies
• About Raves as a Youth Culture Phenomenon

Featured Articles in Center Newsletter/journal

• Youth Participation: Making It Real
• Promoting Youth Development and Addressing Barriers

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Sexual Minority Students

Quick Finds

• Bullying
• Gangs
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Issues

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

• Adolescent Risk Behavior Subgroups: An Empirical Assessment
• Emo
• Emotional Rescue
• Flocabulary (Hip Hop in the Classroom)
• Generation Y
• Generation Z
• Goth subculture
• Hip hop
• Hip Hop Education
• Hip Hop Educational Literacy Program
• How to Be a mean girl
• How to Be Emo in Middle School
• Be the ultimate mean girl
• How to Dress Like a Skater
• How to Look Preppy
• How to Stop a Mean Girl Bully
• Jocks, Gender, Binge Drinking, and Adolescent Violence
• "Just Emotional People”? Emo Culture and the Anxieties of Disclosure
• Metalhead/headbanger
• Preppy
• Punk subculture
• Raves: Information Bulletin
• Rave Club Drugs
• Rave Parties
• Self Abuse Finally Ends (S.A.F.E.) Alternatives
• Skateboarding
• Surf Culture
• What is Surf Style?
• Youth subculture

• Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture
• Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
• Peer Relations Study Group

• After Subculture: Critical Studies In Contemporary Youth Culture. (2004). Bennett, A. & Kahn-Harris, K. (Ed.). Palgrave Macmillan Press.
• American Youth Cultures. (2004). Campbell, N. Edinburgh University Press.
• Distinguishing Between Subgroups of Adolescents Who Self-Harm. (2009). Hargus, E., Hawton K., & Rodham K. Suicide & life-threatening behavior 39(5):518-37.
• Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids. (2004). Milner, M. Routledge Press.
• Friends in the ‘hood: Should peer-based health promotion programs target nonschool friendship networks? (2005). Dolcini, M., Harper, G., Watson, S., Catania, J., Ellen, J. Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 267.e6-267.e6
• Friendship, cliques, and gangs –Young Black men coming of age in urban America. (2003). Dimitriadis, G. New York: Teacher College Press.
• Queer Youth Cultures. (2008). Driver, S. (Ed). State University of New York Press.
• Studying Urban Youth Culture Primer. (2007). Dimitriadis, G. Peter Lang Publishing.
• The Well-being, Peer Cultures and Rights of Children. By Bass, L.E. & Kinney, D.A. (2011). Emerald Group Publishing.
• Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes. (2009). Hodkinson, P., & Deicke, W. Routledge Press.

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