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

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

Adult, Brodart

non fiction

Downed by friendly fire

bibliography

Signithia Fordham

black girls, white girls, and suburban schooling

"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."-- Amazon.com

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