Multicultural girlhood : racism, sexuality, and the conflicted spaces of American education /

High school turf wars are often a teenage rite of passage, but there are extremes-as when a race riot at a Los Angeles campus in the spring of 2005 resulted in a police lockdown. In her fascinating book, Multicultural Girlhood, Mary Thomas interviewed 26 Latina, Armenian, Filipina, African-American,...

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Hlavní autor: Thomas, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1970-
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2011.
Edice:Global youth.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt14bt9qw
Obsah:
  • Introduction
  • Banal multiculturalism and its opaque racisms : new racial ideals and the limits of "getting along"
  • The sexual attraction of racism : the latent desires of "boys are stupid"
  • The pain of segregation : school territoriality, racial embodiment, and paranoid geographies
  • Geographies of migrant girlhood: families and racialization
  • What girls want at school : surveillance, care, and a predictable space
  • Conclusion.