Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys | Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Educ

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Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys

ABSTRACT

This book is an ethnographic study of Carribean youth in New York City to help explain how and why schools and cities are failing boys of color.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter Chapter 1|14 pages

Unequal Schooling: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education

chapter Chapter 2|24 pages

From "Mamasita" to "Hoodlum": Stigma as Lived Experience

chapter Chapter 3|27 pages

"Urban High Schools": The Reality of Unequal Schooling

chapter Chapter 4|22 pages

"Problem" Boys

chapter Chapter 5|23 pages

Rewarding Femininity

chapter Chapter 6|28 pages

Homegrown: How the Family Does Gender

chapter Chapter 7|22 pages

After Graduation: Race and Gender in the Workplace

chapter Chapter 8|12 pages

Education as a Way Out: The Future of Latino and Black Education