Urban dialectics, the market and youth engagement : the 'black' face of Eurocentrism? / Ornette D. Clennon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes about the author -- Introduction -- "Keeping it real" on the streets of reformation and contemporary England : urban dialectics in action -- The ghetto as a cultural enclave -- Afro neo romanticism, the market and its potential for community and social transformation -- Psychic violence and youth street culture : is there a connection? -- Culture, black masculinities and ideological freedoms in the United Kingdom -- Index

How is it that today's young people are perhaps the most ""cultured"" they have ever been with virtually unlimited online access to new innovative underground subcultures whilst the gap between privileged and less privileged youth remains as wide as ever? This is a pressing question as young people from the most deprived backgrounds seem to inspire but not actually gain from the most commercially successful cultural innovations. It would seem that culture in its various facets, plays a complex part in defining and maintaining social inequalities. In this book, the author explores how youth cul.