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- Title
Comrades, cats and country boys: youth style, city streets and the politics of home in East London's townships, 1950-1998.
- Authors
Bank, Leslie
- Abstract
The article focuses on the changing identity politics and social position of youth in the townships of East London in the Eastern Cape between the 1950's and the 1990's. The role of the youth is generally dealt with as part of the larger narrative of the construction of Red and School identities and lifestyles in the city. Different categories of rural youth, therefore, feature as carriers of these identities, and are presented as fulfilling social roles required for the social reproduction of urban life. It hopes to deepen our understanding of the cultural dynamics of youth identity politics and the nature of urbanism in a single South African city.
- Subjects
EAST London (South Africa); SOUTH Africa; YOUTH; LIFESTYLES; CITIES &; towns; SOCIAL psychology; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Anthropology Southern Africa (Anthropology Southern Africa), 2003, Vol 26, Issue 1/2, p29
- ISSN
0258-0144
- Publication type
Article