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Pegged pants poodle skirts, record hops, rock 'n' roll, soda shops: in the interval between the bombing of Hiroshima and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, these were distinguishing marks of the "typical" postwar teenager-if there was a "typical" teenager. In this richly illustrated account of Youth in postwar Buffalo, William Graebner argues that the so-called Youth culture was really a variety of "disparate subcultures, united by age but in conflict over class, race, ethnicity, and gender." Using scrap books, oral histories, school Yearbooks, and material culture, he shows how Buffalo teenagers were products of diverse and often antagonistic subcultures. The innocuous strains of "Rock Around the Clock" muffled the seething gang loyalties and countercultural influence of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Buffalo's own "Hound Dog" Lorenz. Racial antipathies once held in check spilled out on Memorial Day, 1956, when white and black Youth clashed on board a take Erie pleasure boat in a "riot" that recast the city's race relations for decades to come. While exploring the diversity within Youth subcultures, Graebner examines the ways in which adults - educators, clergy, representatives

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Author

William Graebner

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781566391979

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Gender Studies