Downed by friendly fire : black girls, white girls, and suburban schooling /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fordham, Signithia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Subjects:
African American girls > Education (Secondary)
African American girls > Social conditions.
Discrimination in education > United States.
Suburban teenagers > United States.
Youth and violence > United States.
Filles noires américaines > Enseignement secondaire.
Filles noires américaines > Conditions sociales.
Discrimination en éducation > États-Unis.
Adolescents de banlieue > États-Unis.
Violence chez les jeunes > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Secondary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
African American girls > Social conditions
Discrimination in education
Race relations
Suburban teenagers
Youth and violence
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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