the 1990s. Young people had access to jobs and free junior college education, and they could afford to have a car and cruise the Southern California boulevards because, generally speaking, times were good.
Davis implies by negative reference that "generally" refers to the opportunities available mainly to white youngsters when he cites the "irony" that "even white privileged kids are losing these things," i.e., "freedom of movement or right of assembly for youth" (31). He attributes this to perceptions of boulevard-cruising youth as menacing gangs. Although he does not frame his statement this way it can be inferred that white kids cruising the boulevards were perceived as having high spirits, while
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