Divided Youth: White Racism and Male Sexist Practice

Abstract

Youth identities are not simply constructed in particular sites — such as work, the domestic sphere and non-work activity — they are also constitutive of more personalised forms of identification based around ethnicity and gender. For white working-class youth, these identities are most visibly expressed as white racism and male sexist practice. These forms are significant not only for understanding how youth itself becomes internally divided, they are also crucial elements of a wider problem of how to reconcile class cultural struggle with race and gender oppression.