Abstract
In the years following the Civil Rights movement, the specter of racialized, specifically black, youth as thugs became a symbol of postindustrial anxiety and disappointment. Much of the activity of the young on mass transportation, which is interpreted as expressions of delinquency, is actually a performative engagement with adults' anxieties and with the cultural trope of urban, racialized youth as deviant.
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