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Downed by friendly fire : Black girls, White girls, and suburban schooling / Signithia Fordham.
LIBRA LC2779 .F673 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fordham, Signithia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American girls--Education (Secondary).
- African American girls.
- African American girls--Social conditions.
- Discrimination in education--United States.
- Discrimination in education.
- Suburban teenagers.
- Social conditions.
- Education, Secondary.
- United States.
- Suburban teenagers--United States.
- Youth and violence--United States.
- Youth and violence.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 353 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In Downed by Friendly Fire, Signithia Fordham argues that female female-centered bullying, aggression, and competition directly relate to the structural violence embedded in the racialized and gendered social order. For two and a half years, Fordham conducted field research at "Underground Railroad High School," a suburban high school in upstate New York. Through a series of composite student profiles, she examines the girls' relationships to academic achievement, social competition, and natural aggression. Using the concept of symbolic violence, Fordham theorizes the psychological and social damage that black girls academically suffer in schools. The five narratives in Downed by Friendly Fire highlight the pain and suffering-as well as the inequality, exclusion, and marginalization among girls-that such violence produces. Book jacket.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fordham, Signithia, author. Downed by friendly fire
- ISBN:
- 9780816689668
- 0816689660
- 9780816689675
- 0816689679
- OCLC:
- 951158095
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