Bøker av Sarah E. Chinn

The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct ""teenage culture"" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? This title follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.

An analysis of the history of science, US popular culture, sensationalized court cases, forensic technology and literary texts. It seeks to reveal how, in the USA, issues of blood and skin have been manipulated to bear the evidence of racial identity during the 20th century.