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Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and postmillennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United Statess role abroad and at home. Young people have not been shielded from the attacks or from the wars and policy debates that followed. Instead, they have been active participantsas potential military recruits and organizers for social justice amid antiimmigration policies, as students in schools learning about the attacks or readers of young adult literature about wars.The War of My Generation is the first essay collection to focus specifically on how the terrorist attacks and their aftermath have shaped these new generations of Americans. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies, the essays cover a wide range of topics, from graphic war images in the classroom to computer games designed to promote military recruitment to emails from parents in the combat zone. The collection considers what cultural factors and products have shaped young peoples experience of the 9/11 attacks, the wars that have followed, and their experiences as emerging citizensubjects in that moment. Revealing how young people understand the War on Terrorand how adults understand the way young people thinkThe War of My Generation offers groundbreaking research on catastrophic events still fresh in our minds.
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Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and postmillennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United Statess role abroad and at home. Young people have not been shielded from the attacks or from the wars and policy debates that followed. Instead, they have been active participantsas potential military recruits and organizers for social justice amid antiimmigration policies, as students in schools learning about the attacks or readers of young adult literature about wars.The War of My Generation is the first essay collection to focus specifically on how the terrorist attacks and their aftermath have shaped these new generations of Americans. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies, the essays cover a wide range of topics, from graphic war images in the classroom to computer games designed to promote military recruitment to emails from parents in the combat zone. The collection considers what cultural factors and products have shaped young peoples experience of the 9/11 attacks, the wars that have followed, and their experiences as emerging citizensubjects in that moment. Revealing how young people understand the War on Terrorand how adults understand the way young people thinkThe War of My Generation offers groundbreaking research on catastrophic events still fresh in our minds.
