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"DOING" RACIALIZED AND GENDERED AGE TO ORGANIZE PEER RELATIONS

Observing Kids in Summer Camp

University of Vermont

Using an interactionist approach, this study compares the ways that older preadolescents established and negotiated peer relations by engaging in racialized and gendered age processes at two summer day camps. The camps differed in their racial compositions, their organization of activities by age and gender, and their rules delineating camper behavior. Campers in both settings used notions of modesty and relations of dominance over younger children similarly in organizing their peer relations. They differed, though, in how they used a stance uncooperative toward adults and a stance of being "just kids" together to create racialized, aged, and gendered boundaries. Thus, campers created peer cultures with variably hierarchical cliques using inclusive and exclusionary dynamics that held each other accountable to emergent and racialized conceptions of gender and age in ways that actively and creatively used the adult cultures around them.

Gender & Society, Vol. 15, No. 6, 835-858 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/089124301015006004


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