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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1970-

Series:

Global youth.

Global youth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--United States.

Teenage girls.

Minority teenagers--United States.

Minority teenagers.

Multiculturalism--United States.

Multiculturalism.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Social interaction in adolescence--United States.

Social interaction in adolescence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613286536

9781283286534

128328653X

9781439907337

1439907331

OCLC:

756484275