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Downed by Friendly Fire : Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling /

Most Americans would never willingly revisit their high school experiences; the nation's school systems reflect the broader society's hierarchical emphasis on race, class, and gender. While schools purport to provide equal opportunities for all students, this rarely happens in actuality--p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fordham, Signithia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude: Who has seen the headwinds?
  • Introduction: Violence; by another name?
  • Frenemies and friendly fire at Underground Railroad High
  • Last stop on the Underground Railroad, first stop of refried segregation : setting and methodology
  • Nadine : words as violence and misrecognition
  • Brittany : she talks like a black girl
  • Keyshia : the black girl's two-step
  • Chloe : Goldilocks, and girls who are not
  • Ally : size matters
  • Conclusion: Excavating, resuscitating, and rehabilitating violence; by another name.