Transcultural Teens

<i>Transcultural Teens</i> provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or <i>cit</i>é<i>s</i>, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions of intercultural animosity.<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Provides solid, real-world evidence in the often abstracted theoretical debate on globalization and transnationalism</li> <li>Offers detailed data on linguistic practices that is more focused than generalized anthropological studies</li> <li>Includes the experiences of French-Algerian adolescent girls who remain largely absent from academic and popular discourse</li> <li>Reveals the cultural richness and diversity of a population that is stigmatized and marginalized in a national context</li> </ul>