Format:
Online-Ressource (viii, 204 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781439907320
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128328653X
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9781439907313
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9781439907337
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9781283286534
Series Statement:
Global youth
Content:
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, and Anglo girls at this high school to gauge their responses to the campus violence. They all denounced the outbreak, calling for multicultural understanding and peaceful coexistence.However, as much as the girls want everyone to just “get along,” they also exhibit strong racist be
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Banal Multiculturalism and Its Opaque Racisms: New Racial Ideals and the Limits of "Getting Along"; 3. The Sexual Attraction of Racism: The Latent Desires of "Boys Are Stupid"; 4. The Pain of Segregation: School Territoriality, Racial Embodiment, and Paranoid Geographies; 5. Geographies of Migrant Girlhood: Families and Racialization; 6. What Girls Want at School: Surveillance, Care, and a Predictable Space; 7. Conclusion; References; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
1283286343
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Multicultural Girlhood : Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education
Language:
English
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