High school turf wars are often a teenage rite of passage, but there are extremesOCoas when a race riot at a Los Angeles campus in the spring of 2005 resulted in a police lockdown. In her fascinating book, "Multicultural Girlhood," Mary Thomas interviewed 26 Latina, Armenian, Filipina, African-American, and Anglo girls at this high school to gauge their responses to the campus violence. They all denounced the outbreak, calling for multicultural understanding and peaceful coexistence. However, as much as the girls want ...
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High school turf wars are often a teenage rite of passage, but there are extremesOCoas when a race riot at a Los Angeles campus in the spring of 2005 resulted in a police lockdown. In her fascinating book, "Multicultural Girlhood," Mary Thomas interviewed 26 Latina, Armenian, Filipina, African-American, and Anglo girls at this high school to gauge their responses to the campus violence. They all denounced the outbreak, calling for multicultural understanding and peaceful coexistence. However, as much as the girls want everyone to just OC get along, OCO they also exhibit strong racist beliefs and validate segregated social spaces on campus and beyond. How can teenagers and OC girl powerOCO work together to empower instead of alienate multicultural groups? In her perceptive book, Thomas foregrounds the spaces of teen girlhood and the role that space plays in girls' practices that perpetuate social difference, and she explains the ways we navigate the intellectual terrain between scholarship and school yard.
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