{"product_id":"juarez-girls-rising-9780816696543","title":"Juárez Girls Rising","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juarez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rarely do we read about the on-the-ground liberatory work of teachers and youths in schools and the agency of young women to live meaningful and joyous lives. In \u003ci\u003eJuárez Girls Rising\u003c\/i\u003e, the stories of the women and the school are beautifully interwoven, providing a powerful, nuanced, and compelling ethnography that neither victimizes nor romanticizes young, working-class women as they form meaningful identities and future possibilities in the context of gender-, race- and class-based violence.\"—Sofia Villenas, Cornell University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An important and unique insider's perspective on the city of Juárez, \u003ci\u003eJuárez Girls Rising\u003c\/i\u003e provides a complex, detailed, and nuanced lens to better understand the multiple barriers young women in the city encounter.\"—Gilda L. Ochoa, author of \u003ci\u003eAcademic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The nuance with which Cervantes-Soon reflexively offers insights as an insider\/outsider in ways that are deeply reflective of humanizing research make it an ideal fit for courses on ethnography, qualitative methods, critical pedagogy, or culturally sustaining pedagogies.\"—\u003ci\u003eTeachers College Record\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Cervantes-Soon provides the reader with an understanding that moves beyond the often stigmatizing or pathologizing discourses constructing the city. This engages the reader in the compassionate empathy that characterizes the school ethos.\" —\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Countering Despair and Stigma through \u003ci\u003eAutogestión\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Border Paradoxes, Dystopia, and Revolutionary Education \u003cbr\u003e2. Through Girls’ Eyes: Coming of Age in Ciudad Juárez \u003cbr\u003e3. Enacting a Pedagogy of \u003ci\u003eAutogestión\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Building a Mujerista Space at Altavista\u003cbr\u003e5. Mujeres Autogestivas: Young Women Authoring Their Identities \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Life after Altavista\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405977461079,"sku":"9780816696543","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816696543.jpg?v=1730494116","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/juarez-girls-rising-9780816696543","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}