Multicultural girlhood [[electronic resource] ] : racism, sexuality, and the conflicted spaces of American education / / Mary E. Thomas

• Autore: Thomas Mary E (Mary Elizabeth), <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetto topico: Teenage girls - United States; Minority teenagers - United States; Multiculturalism - United States; Racism - United States; Social interaction in adolescence - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ra
• Titolo autorizzato: Multicultural girlhood
• ISBN: 1-283-28653-X; 9786613286536; 1-4399-0733-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457587503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Global youth.