Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Outside of the 60s generation, there are few if any generational groupings as well known and discussed as Generation X, the term coined by Douglas Copeland to describe the generation approaching adulthood in the post-Reagan boom-years of the 1990s. As the subject of books (Generation X), movies (Reality Bites, Clerks, Slacker), TV dramas and sitcoms (Seinfeld, Friends, Ally McBeal, Sex and the City), and Prime Time news specials, there is seemingly little new to say about Gen X. It has long since been tagged as a generation blessed with immense cultural and economic freedom but with little direction and even less conviction, a depiction resulting in its portrayal as a collection of morbid, defeated slackers whose petty individual interests have fallen out of line with traditional American goals and community-based values.
Recommended Citation
Mayer, Danny "On Ethan Watter's Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family and Commitment." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol. 5, no. 3, 2025, pp. 1–5.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol5/iss3/14