The "Low-Riders": Portrait of an Urban Youth Sub-culture.

Holtz, Janice-Marie Allard

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Publication Date: 1975

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The "Low-Riders": Portrait of an Urban Youth Sub-culture

Holtz, Janice-Marie Allard

Youth and Society, 6, 4, 495-508, Jun 75

Discusses field research on the "lowriders" a persistent and highly visible youth sub-culture in East Los Angeles participated in by predominantly male Chicanos ranging in age from their middle teens to their middle twenties; reported as part of a study of the local youth sub-culture which form the context in which street gangs persist. (Author/JM)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Field Studies, Mexican Americans, Urban Culture, Urban Youth, Young Adults, Youth Clubs, Youth Problems

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Identifiers - Location: California (Los Angeles)

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