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"Busing It" in the City: Black Youth, Performance and Public Transit
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 48, Number 2 (T 182), Summer 2004
- pp. 33-48
- Article
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In the years following the Civil Rights movement, the specter of racialized, specifically black, youth as thugs became a symbol of postindustrial anxiety and disappointment. Much of the activity of the young on mass transportation, which is interpreted as expressions of delinquency, is actually a performative engagement with adults' anxieties and with the cultural trope of urban, racialized youth as deviant.