Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"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
Table of ContentsContents
Prelude: Who Has Seen the Headwinds?
Introduction: Violence—By Another Name?
1. Frienemies and Friendly Fire at Underground Railroad High
2. Last Stop on the Underground Railroad, First Stop of Refried Segregation: Setting and Methodology
3. Nadine: Words as Violence and Misrecognition
4. Brittany: She Talks Like a Black Girl
5. Keyshia: The Black Girl’s Two-Step
6. Chloe: Goldilocks, and Girls Who Are Not
7. Ally: Size Matters
Conclusion: Excavating, Resuscitating and Rehabilitating Violence—By Another Name
Notes
Bibliography
Index
