Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (A Longman Topics Reader) - Softcover

LONGMAN TOPICS are brief, thought-provoking readers on a single complex, compelling, topic. Featuring about 30 full-length reading selections, these volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers.

• High-interest readings on American youth subcultures offer students the opportunity to be content experts right from the start of the semester and approach their research through personal life experiences.
• The variety of writing genres opens possibilities for a wide array of writing strategies that includes oral history, academic research, and memoir.
• Essays by college students as well as professional journalists and scholars in each chapter provide students with realistic models for their own writing.
• Post-reading “Notebook” questions provide discussion questions and writing opportunities.
• “Suggestions for Further Reading” offer research launching points.
• An alternate Rhetorical Table of Contents accommodates multiple teaching approaches for maximum instructor flexibility.