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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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
©2011.
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| ISBN: | 9781439907337 1439907331 9786613286536 6613286532 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 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.