Downed by friendly fire : black girls, white girls, and suburban schooling

Downed by friendly fire : black girls, white girls, and suburban schooling / Signithia Fordham.

Author/creator	Fordham, Signithia author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Description	xii, 353 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)	African American girls--Education (Secondary) African American girls--Social conditions. Discrimination in education--United States. Suburban teenagers--United States. Youth and violence--United States. United States--Race relations.

Contents	Prelude. Who has seen the headwinds? -- Introduction. Violence : by another name? -- Frenemies and friendly fire at Underground Railroad High -- Last stop on the Underground Railroad, first stop of refried segregation : setting and methodology -- Nadine : words as violence and misrecognition -- Brittany : she talks like a black girl -- Keyshia : the black girl's two-step -- Chloe : Goldilocks, and girls who are not -- Ally : size matters -- Conclusion. Excavating, resuscitating, and rehabilitating violence : by another name.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-338) and index.
LCCN	2016034580
ISBN	9780816689668 (hc ; alk. paper)
ISBN	0816689660 (hc ; alk. paper)
ISBN	9780816689675 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN	0816689679 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN	(ebook)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	LC2779 .F673 2016	✔ Available	Place Hold