Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book is the most extensive contribution to our understanding of the graffiti subculture to date. Using insights from ethnographic research conducted in London and New York, the author explores the varying ways young men use graffiti to construct masculinity, claim power and establish independence from the institutions which define and often limit them as young people. Forging a link between subcultural practice and identity construction, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in new understandings of youth and their subcultures.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Figures
• Shout Outs (As They Say)
• Introduction
• Climbing Down off the Fence: Locating our Standpoint and Values
• Are Theories of Subculture too Class Orientated?
• I Woz 'Ere: Tales from the Field
• Going Underground: A Journey into the Graffiti Subculture
• Constructive Destruction: Graffiti as a Tool for Making Masculinity
• Keeping its Distance: The Subculture's Separation from the 'Outside World'
• Making a World of Difference: The Personal Benefits of Subcultural Membership
• Conclusion
• Afterword: Writers Talk Back
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index