Contents: Awad Ibrahim: Critical Youth Studies: An Introduction - Douglas Kellner: Toward a Critical Theory of Youth - Kate Tilleczek: Theorizing Young Lives: Biography, Society, and Time - Susan Talburt/Nancy Lesko: Historicizing Youth Studies - Marcel Danesi: The Symbolism of Cool in Adolescence and Youth Culture - Michael O'Loughlin/P. Taylor Van Zile IV: Becoming Revolutionaries: Toward Non-Teleological and Non-Normative Notions of Youth Growth - Suzana Feldens Schwertner/Rosa Maria Bueno Fischer: Youth: Multiple Connectivities, New Temporalities, and Early Nostalgia - John Smyth: An 'Evolving Criticality' in Youth and/or Student Voice in Schools in Hardening Neoliberal Times - Paul Willis: Foot Soldiers of Modernity: The Dialectics of Cultural Consumption and the 21st Century School - Henry A. Giroux: No Bailouts for Youth: Broken Promises and Dashed Hopes - Dwayne Donald/Mandy Krahn: Abandoning Pathologization: Conceptualizing Indigenous Youth Identity as Flowing from Communitarian Understandings - Jill Guy/Jon Austin: See Me, Hear Me: Engaging With Australian Aboriginal Youth and Their Lifeworlds - Dennis Carlson: 'It Gets Better': Queer Youth and the History of the Problem of the Homosexual in Public Education - Cathryn Teasley: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Gender Diversity in the Earliest Stages of Youth Identity Formation - sj Miller: Moving an Anti-Bullying Stance Into Schools: Supporting the Identities of Transgender and Gender Variant Youth - Nichole E. Grant/Timothy J. Stanley: Reading the Wallpaper: Disrupting Performances of Whiteness in the Blog, Stuff White People Like - Virginia Lea/Maria Sylvia Edouard-Gundowry: Targeted by the Crosshairs: Student Voices on Colonialism, Racism, and Whiteness as Barriers to Educational Equity - Marlon Simmons: Politics of Urban Diasporized Youth and Possibilities for Belonging - Fabiola Martinez/Elizabeth Quintero: Conocimiento: Mixtec Youth sin fronteras - Saba Alvi: From Hijabi to Ho-jabi: Voguing the Hijab and the Politics Behind an Emerging Subculture - Nicholas Ng-A-Fook/Linda Radford/Tasha Ausman: Living Hyph-E-Nations: Marginalized Youth, Social Networking, and Third Spaces - Susan Beierling: A Fat Woman's Story of Body-Image Politics and the Weighty Discourses of Magnification and Minimization - Dana Hasson: Breaking Stereotypes: How Are Youth With Disability Represented in Mainstream Media? - Elizabeth J. Meyer: She's the Man: Deconstructing the Gender and Sexuality Curriculum at Hollywood High - Eloise Tan: Learning Filipino Youth Identities: Positive Portrayals or Stifling Stereotypes? - Kerri Mesner/Carl Leggo: Surprising Representations of Youth in Saved! and Loving Annabelle - Lynn Corcoran: He Seemed Like Such a Nice Guy: Youth, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Media - Tracy D. Keats: We Don't Need Another Hero: Captaining in Youth Sport - Renee K. L. Wikaire/Joshua I. Newman: Decolonizing Sport-Based Youth Development - Nathan Snaza/John A. Weaver: Posthuman(ist) Youth: Control, Play, and Possibilities - Donyell L. Roseboro: Mediated Youth, Curriculum, and Cyberspace: Pivoting the In-Between - Kelsey Catherine Schmitz: Why Is My Champion so Hot?: Gender Performance in the Online Video Game League of Legends - Robert Jones: Machinima: Gamers Start Playing Director - Angel Lin: Hip Hop Pedagogies in/for Transformation of Youth Identities: A Pilot Project - Curry Malott/Brad Porfilio: Punk Rock, Hip Hop, and the Politics of Human Resistance: Reconstituting the Social Studies Through Critical Media Literacy - Haidee Smith Lefebvre: The Breaking (Street Dance) Cipher: A Shared Context for