San Antonio College Library

The 75 million Americans born between 1960 and 1980 have been called a lot of names, but a media sound bite doesn't make a generation; demographics, politics, culture, and economics do. This book chronicles the history of how "Generation X" came to be: not a lot of pretentious posturing or shrill whining, but instead the first-ever factual, no-nonsense look at what happened in the 60s, 70s, and 80s - a detailed tour of the events and trends that set...

An emerging spokesperson for a new generation addresses the grim state of young people today--and tells us how we can, and must, save our future. The nature of youth is to question, SO when 24-year-old Kamenetz started out as a journalist, she began asking hard questions for which no one seemed to have good answers. Why were her friends thousands of dollars in credit-card debt? Why did so many jobs for people under thirty-five involve a plastic name...

On college campuses and in high school halls, being white means being boring. Since whiteness is the mainstream, white kids lack a cultural identity that's exotic or worth flaunting. To remedy this, countless white youths across the country are now joining more outre; subcultures like the Black - and Puerto Rican - dominated hip-hop scene, the glamorously morose goth community, or an evangelical Christian organization whose members reject campus partying....