Sociological studies of youth culture have often focused on processes of social identification. Though\udsome of this work has explored the importance of consumption within young people’s identity\udpractices, much has foregrounded the effects of economic marginality and neglected the importance\udof ‘race’. This article explores the role of clothing and embodied dispositions, popularly referred to\udas “swagger”, within the ways that young people position themselves in relation to each other.\udDrawing on field notes and focus group data with a predominantly Somali sample of teenage boys, in\uda Northern English city, this article elucidates the centrality of these seemingly mundane cultural\udsignifiers within everyday processes of ‘racial’ and classed positioning. In doing so, the article seeks\udto extend contemporary studies of youth culture, consumption and identification by evidencing how\udmarginalised young people simultaneously challenge and reaffirm their positioning, through the\udperformance of stylized masculinity and swagger.
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