{"product_id":"cultural-matrix-understanding-black-youth-9780674659971","title":"Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. Despite school dropout rates over 40 percent, a third spending time in prison, chronic unemployment, and endemic violence, black youth are among the most vibrant creators of popular culture in the world. They also espouse several deeply-held American values. To understand this conundrum, the authors bring culture back to the forefront of explanation, while avoiding the theoretical errors of earlier culture-of-poverty approaches and the causal timidity and special pleading of more recent ones. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is no single black youth culture, but a complex matrix of cultures--adapted mainstream, African-American vernacular, street culture, and hip-hop--that support and undermine, enrich and impoverish young lives. Hip-hop, for example, has had an enormous influence, not always to the advantage of its creators. However, its muscular message of primal honor and sensual indulgence is not motivated by a desire for separatism but by an insistence on sharing in the mainstream culture of consumption, power, and wealth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis interdisciplinary work draws on all the social sciences, as well as social philosophy and ethnomusicology, in a concerted effort to explain how culture, interacting with structural and environmental forces, influences the performance and control of violence, aesthetic productions, educational and work outcomes, familial, gender, and sexual relations, and the complex moral life of black youth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Orlando Patterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 2.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674659971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatterson, Orlando:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Orlando Patterson is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University; the author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom in the Making of Western Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and \u003ci\u003eSlavery and Social Death\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard); and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard), for which he was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. His work has been honored by the American Sociological Association and the American Political Science Association, among others, and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as Special Advisor for Social Policy and Development to Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley and was awarded the Order of Distinction by the Government of Jamaica.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFosse, Ethan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Ethan Fosse is a doctoral student in Sociology at Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40085631664243,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ba22899e-1d02-4400-9384-c1f53ab61852.jpg?v=1652450757","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/cultural-matrix-understanding-black-youth-9780674659971","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}