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The War of My Generation : Youth Culture and the War on Terror by David Kieran; Holly Swyers; Cindy Dell Clark; Professor Sunaina Maira; Laura Browder; Jeremy K. Saucier; Robertson Allen; Jo Lampert; Irene Garza; Benjamin Cooper; Rebecca A. Adelman is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United States's role abroad and at home. Young people have not been shielded from the attacks or from the wars and policy debates that followed. Instead, they have been active participants—as potential military recruits and organizers for social justice amid anti-immigration policies, as students in schools learning about the attacks or readers of young adult literature about wars. The War of My Generation is the first essay collection to focus specifically on how the terrorist attacks and their aftermath have shaped these new generations of Americans. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies, the essays cover a wide range of topics, from graphic war images in the classroom to computer games designed to promote military recruitment to emails from parents in the

Author

David Kieran; Holly Swyers; Cindy Dell Clark; Professor Sunaina Maira; Laura Browder; Jeremy K. Saucier; Robertson Allen; Jo Lampert; Irene Garza; Benjamin Cooper; Rebecca A. Adelman

Publisher

New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London: Rutgers University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813575711

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science