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Multicultural Girlhood
Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education
Résumé
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 beliefs and validate segregated social spaces on campus and beyond. How can teenagers and “girl power” work together to empower instead of alienate multicultural groups? In her perceptive book, Thomas foregrounds the spaces of teen girlhood and the role that space plays in girls' practices that perpetuate social difference, and she explains the ways we navigate the intellectual terrain between scholarship and school yard.
Détails de l'édition
- ISBN-13
- 9781439907313
- ISBN-10
- 1439907315
- EAN
- 9781439907313
- Éditeur
- Temple university press (Philadelphia)
- Date de publication
- 21 octobre 2011
- Langue
- en
- Pages
- 215
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
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- dimensions BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
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