Downed by Friendly Fire

Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling

AvSignithia Fordham

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Most Americans would never willingly revisit their high school experiences; the nations school systems reflect the broader societys 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 School,a suburban high school in upstate New York. Through a series of composite student profiles, she examines the girls relationships to academic achievement, social competition, and aggression toward one another. Fordham argues that girls academically compete to lose,which only perpetuates their subordination through the misrecognition of their own competitive behaviors. She goes further to expand the meaning of violence to include what is seen as normal, including suffering, humiliation, and social and economic abuse. Using the concept symbolic violence,Fordham theorizes the psychological and social damage suffered especially by black girls in schools. The five narratives in Downed by Friendly Fire ultimately highlight the pain and suffering this violence produces as well as the ways in which it promotes inequality, exclusion, and marginalization among girls.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-22
Mått:140 x 216 x 38 mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:9780816689668

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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.

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"Introducing a new interpretive framework with fresh and original analysis, Signithia Fordham is doing something really unique here. Her grounded, intersectional investigation of girls' peer-to-peer conflict is in constant interplay with an exploration of symbolic violence in girls' lives in different circumstances and on multiple levels, challenging our taken-for-granted notions not only about girls, but about the larger forces at play in our own lives."-Lyn Mikel Brown, author of Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls"In a no-holds-barred account, Signithia Fordham critically interrogates the enculturated forms of symbolic violence whose misrecognition sustains gendered, racialized, and classed inequalities in schools and, ultimately, in the wider U.S. society. She has produced a sophisticated intersectional study of the interplay between stigma, privilege, and power."-Faye V. Harrison, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign"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 Review

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPrelude: Who Has Seen the Headwinds?Introduction: Violence-By Another Name?1. Frienemies and Friendly Fire at Underground Railroad High2. Last Stop on the Underground Railroad, First Stop of Refried Segregation: Setting and Methodology3. Nadine: Words as Violence and Misrecognition4. Brittany: She Talks Like a Black Girl5. Keyshia: The Black Girl’s Two-Step6. Chloe: Goldilocks, and Girls Who Are Not7. Ally: Size MattersConclusion: Excavating, Resuscitating and Rehabilitating Violence-By Another NameNotesBibliographyIndex