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Baby Boom Generation |
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Boomernet -- The Baby Boomers' Surfing Center (Terry Cochran) |
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Selected 1990 Census Data (Relevant to Baby Boom Generation) (U. S. Census Bureau) |
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The Eighties |
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The '80s Server ("Welcome to The 80s Server -- the ultimate trip back into our not-so-distant past") (Metropolis Inc.) |
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ChuckyG's Eighties Web Pages (Charles R. Grosvenor, Jr.) |
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Once Upon a Time in the Eighties: A Collaborative Hypertext (student project on the '80s for Matthew G. Kirschenbaum's course at U. Virginia; includes others '80s links) |
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Generation X |
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100 Harshest Facts About Our Future (list from Revolution X by Rob Nelson and Jon Cowan providing a Gen X view of the future) (Adam Rifkin, CalTech) |
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Adam Rifkin's Lead . . . or Leave Page |
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Homepage (page on Lead . . . or Leave, a now defunct "large Generation X political organization in the United States, lobbying and consulting in the effort to put generational issues on the national political map") |
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Reinvent Social Security ("Problem: As the baby boomers retire, the U.S. will no longer be able to afford to pay out Social Security benefits without drastically raising taxes on younger workers") (Adam Rifkin, CalTech) |
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The Alternative Group ("non-partisan political advocacy group for Generation X, supporting practical public policy that will have a profound impact on young Americans") |
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Jim Connelly, Slacker (very witty, yet lackadaisical, series of personal vignette-meditations on Gen X) |
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Conservative Generation X (Paul Colligan & Ehren Filippello) |
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"Death of Generation X" ("article on page 72 of June 1995's Details magazine, wherein Douglas Coupland commits Gen-X-cide") (Adam Rifkin, CalTech) |
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EmPower X!'s Online Empowerment Information Center ("non profit, educational organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for the members of Generation X") |
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Henry A. Giroux (Pennsylvania State U.) |
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"Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy" |
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"Slacking Off: Border Youth and Postmodern Education" (1994) (JAC Online) |
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Olivia López (Uc Berkeley (UC Berkeley) |
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Generation X Bibliography |
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Some Generation X (Gen X, 13th Generation, Slackers, Post-Baby Boomers) Links |
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"Thoughts on Texts that Sur-round, De-construct and Re-construct Generation X" |
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Laura Martz, "Free Time! Ludicity and the Anti-work Ethic" (Situationist-inspired essay taking a "ludic" approach to the work/slack problem) (Cultronix) |
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"The Romantic Slacker" ("Sorry, but placing most of these people into a mold of defiant rebel is bullshit. What they are are pathetic wastes of humanity") (Kiefer) |
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"When Do They Settle Down?: Young People in the U.S. Labor Market" (1995) (RAND research brief summarizing research by Jacob Klerman and Lynn Karoly) |
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The Sixties |
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The Sixties Project (history and culture of the '60s) (Kali Tal) |
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ThirdAge (site with news, resources, chat, etc. for "third agers," those in "the new, extended period of active adulthood which starts in the early 50s") (Third Age Media, Inc.) |
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The Time Page: Cycles in American History (Bill Murray) |
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