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How high school girls perpetuate social spaces of racism, misogyny, and gender stereotyping despite their best intentions

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Author:   Mary E. Thomas
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781439907320

ISBN 10:   1439907323
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   21 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Banal Multiculturalism and Its Opaque Racisms: New Racial Ideals and the Limits of ""Getting Along"" 3 The Sexual Attraction of Racism: The Latent Desires of ""Boys Are stupid"" 4 The Pain of Segregation: School Territoriality, Racial Embodiment, and Paranoid Geographies 5 Geographies of Migrant Girlhood: Families and Racialization 6 What Girls Want at School: Surveillance, Care, and a Predictable Space 7 Conclusion References Index

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In this multifaceted analysis, Thomas accomplishes a genuine assessment of the limited possibilities for addressing the realities of race, ethnicity, and poverty in urban schools using the current multicultural framework. Choice, June 2012

""In this multifaceted analysis, Thomas accomplishes a genuine assessment of the limited possibilities for addressing the realities of race, ethnicity, and poverty in urban schools using the current multicultural framework."" - Choice, June 2012 ""In this carefully crafted and theoretically sophisticated study, Mary E. Thomas offers a much-needed critique of the limitations of multiculturalism to fight racism, sexism, misogyny, and violence in schools... The innovative analyses offered from this study herald the centrality of new work by new theorists... Thomas adds an exceptional and provocative study to our research on the politics in the urban U.S. schoolyard setting."" - Contemporary Sociology

Author Information

Mary E. Thomas is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Geography and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University.

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