Multicultural girlhood
Subtitle: racism, sexuality, and the conflicted spaces of American education
By: Mary E. Thomas
Series: Global youth; Global youth
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781439907313; 9781439907320; 9781439907337
Subjects: Multiculturalism; Social interaction in adolescence; Minority teenagers; Racism; Teenage girls
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Banal multiculturalism and its opaque racisms : new racial ideals and the limits of "getting along"; title: The sexual attraction of racism : the latent desires of "boys are stupid"; title: The pain of segregation : school territoriality, racial embodiment, and paranoid geographies; title: Geographies of migrant girlhood: families and racialization; title: What girls want at school : surveillance, care, and a predictable space; title: Conclusion.