Multicultural girlhood : racism, sexuality, and the conflicted spaces of American education /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Series:Global youth.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.