@article{435978, author = {Warikoo, Natasha Kumar,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/435978}, title = {Balancing acts youth culture in the global city / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {University of California Press,}, abstract = {In this timely examination of children of immigrants in New York and London, Natasha Kumar Warikoo asks, Is there a link between rap/hip-hop-influenced youth culture and motivation to succeed in school? Warikoo challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture--the clothing, music, and tough talk--to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.}, recid = {435978}, pages = {1 online resource (xviii, 224 p.)}, address = {Berkeley :}, year = {2011}, }