Classed, Raced, and Gendered Processes of Exclusion in Urban Young People’s Subcultures

Abstract

Drawing on empirical research on “social mixing” in multiethnic urban schools, this chapter outlines a recipe or route map to the study of young people’s identities, subjectivities, and processes of inclusion and exclusion. Exploring spaces of friendships, subcultures, and schools as places of inclusion and exclusion for young people, the chapter builds up a theoretical model, illustrating complex concepts with vignette examples from key scholars’ empirical work. Understanding of identity as discursively performative, embodied, relational, and intersectional, the chapter demonstrates that schooling, subculture, and friendships are implicated in the (re)production of normative raced, classed, and gendered subjects. Furthermore, identity positions (of gender, race, and social class) are embodied capitals/resources which produce young men and women as subjects of value/subjects without value, which feed into processes of inclusion and exclusion. S. Hollingworth (*) Arts and Human Sciences/Social Sciences, Weeks Centre, London South Bank University, London, UK e-mail: s.hollingworth@lsbu.ac.uk # Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 N. Worth et al. (eds.), Identities and Subjectivities, Geographies of Children and Young People 4, DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-023-0_17 231