Chapter 5. The Amway Connection: How Transnational Ideas of Beauty and Money Affect Northern Thai Girls’ Perceptions of Their Future Options

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: Midnight's Children: Youth Culture in the Age of Globalization vii
4. Introduction xv
5. Part I. Documents and Tags
6. Chapter 1. Straight Outta Mogadishu: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices Among Somali Youth in North American High Schools 3
7. Chapter 2. Gangs and Their Walls 23
8. Chapter 3. Race Bending: “Mixed” Youth Practicing Strategic Racialization in California 43
9. Chapter 4. The Intimate and the Imperial: South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth After 9/11 64
10. Part II. Movements and Outbreaks
11. Chapter 5. The Amway Connection: How Transnational Ideas of Beauty and Money Affect Northern Thai Girls’ Perceptions of Their Future Options 85
12. Chapter 6. Homies Unidos: International Barrio Warriors Waging Peace on Two Fronts 103
13. Chapter 7. Globalizing Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone 119
14. Part III. Icons and Retakes
15. Chapter 8. “Jackie Chan Is Nobody, and So Am I”: Juvenile Fan Culture and the Construction of Transnational Male Identity in the Tamil Diaspora 137
16. Chapter 9. Authenticating Practices: Producing Realness, Performing Youth 155
17. Chapter 10. Making Hard-Core Masculinity: Teenage Boys Playing House 173
18. Chapter 11. Bad Boys: Abstractions of Difference and the Politics of Youth “Deviance” 192
19. Contributors 215
20. Notes 219
21. References 233
22. Index 255
23. Acknowledgments 259