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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Thomas, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1970-
Imprint:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Description:	viii, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Global youth Global youth.
Subject:	Teenage girls -- United States. Minority teenagers -- United States. Multiculturalism -- United States. Racism -- United States. Social interaction in adolescence -- United States. Minority teenagers. Multiculturalism. Racism. Social interaction in adolescence. Teenage girls. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8544653

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ISBN:	9781439907313 (cloth : alk. paper) 1439907315 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781439907320 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1439907323 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781439907337 (e-book) 1439907331 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-200) and index.

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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