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Downed by Friendly Fire: Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling
Signithia Fordham
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Paperback. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; JFFJ; JFSL3; JFSP1; JNHB; JNKS; JNLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 26. Weight in Grams: 436.
Most Americans would never willingly revisit their high school experiences; the nation's school systems reflect the broader society's hierarchical emphasis on race, class, and gender. While schools purport to provide equal opportunities for all students, this rarely happens in actuality-particularly for girls. In Downed by Friendly Fire, Signithia Fordham unmasks and examines female-centered bullying in schools, arguing that it is essential to unmask female aggression, bullying, and competition, all of which 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 ... Read more
Most Americans would never willingly revisit their high school experiences; the nation's school systems reflect the broader society's hierarchical emphasis on race, class, and gender. While schools purport to provide equal opportunities for all students, this rarely happens in actuality-particularly for girls. In Downed by Friendly Fire, Signithia Fordham unmasks and examines female-centered bullying in schools, arguing that it is essential to unmask female aggression, bullying, and competition, all of which 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
436g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816689675
SKU
V9780816689675
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About Signithia Fordham
Signithia Fordham is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Rochester and the author of Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Captial High.
Reviews for Downed by Friendly Fire: Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling
Downed by Friendly Fire will become a text that demands reconceptualization of what we come to know as violence in schools. It requires a closer look at the intersections of race and gender violence while holding one accountable in the ways that privilege and power are enacted systematically. A book that I recommend to teachers, administrators, and researchers alike. -Education ... Read more