African American Girls and the Construction of Identity
Class, Race, and Gender- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2020
Summary
In African American Girls and the Construction of Identity, Sheila Walker closely examines socioeconomic class and explores the way it shapes how African American girls experience race and gender in the process of their identity formation. While all the girls who participated in the two-year study are African American, their lives are racialized and gendered in significantly different ways, in both public and private spaces. Affluence is not a guaranteed protection against the identity-damaging effects of racism, and poverty is not necessarily a risk factor for an irresolute identity. By examining identity through the lens of class, Walker provides researchers, educators, and parents a more in-depth appreciation of what is a very complex, multi-layered phenomenon.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2020
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4985-7008-4
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4985-7009-1
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 187
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Acknowledgements No access
- Chapter One: Race, Class, Gender, and Identity in Psychological Research No access Pages 1 - 14
- Chapter Two: Laying the Groundwork No access Pages 15 - 34
- Chapter Three: Methodology No access Pages 35 - 54
- Chapter Four: The Private School Girls No access Pages 55 - 96
- Chapter Five: The Magnet School Girls No access Pages 97 - 126
- Chapter Six: The Public School Girls No access Pages 127 - 154
- Conclusion No access Pages 155 - 166
- References No access Pages 167 - 176
- Index No access Pages 177 - 186
- About the Author No access Pages 187 - 187





