Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives (Youth in a Globalizing World, 4)

Book info: Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives (Youth in a Globalizing World, 4) (Hardcover, 314 pages) – Brill, 2017. Language: English.

Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives assembles chapters written by members and affiliates of the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood on pressing issues facing young, coming-of-age Americans in an increasingly diverse, globalizing world. Based on over 400 interviews with young adults from different racial, class and regional backgrounds, the chapters provide an in-depth look at how young Americans understand their lives and the challenges, risks, and opportunities they experience as they move into adulthood during changing and uncertain times. Chapters focus on how these young adults understand markers of adulthood such as leaving home, launching careers, and forming relationships, as well as issues particularly salient to them including politics, diversity, identity, and acculturation.Contributors are: Pamela Aronson, Arturo Baiocchi, Erika Busse, Patrick J. Carr, Laura Fischer, Constance A. Flanagan, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Douglas Hartmann, Maria Kefalas, Vivian Louie, Charlie V. Morgan, Jeylan Mortimer, Laura Napolitano, Lisa Anh Nguyen, Wayne Osgood, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Sarah Shannon, Teresa Toguchi Swartz, and Christopher Uggen.Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives is now available in paperback for individual customers. Editorial Reviews About the Author Teresa Toguchi Swartz, Ph.D. (2001), University of California, San Diego is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on intergenerational relations, families, race and ethnicity, Asian Americans, youth and young adulthood.

Douglas Hartmann, Ph.D. (1997), University of California, San Diego, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and studies race, ethnicity, culture, sport, and religion.

Rubén G. Rumbaut, Ph.D. (1978), Brandeis University, is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of numerous books and articles on migration, ethnic identities, and transitions to adulthood, including Immigrant America: A Portrait (with Alejandro Portes, University of California Press, 2014).