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- Title
School as a Hostile Institution: How Black and Immigrant Girls of Color Experience the Classroom.
- Authors
Ray, Ranita
- Abstract
The paradox of girls' academic gains over boys, across race and class, has perplexed scholars for the last few decades. Through a 3-year longitudinal ethnography of two predominantly economically marginalized and racially minoritized schools, I contend that while racially marginalized girls may have made academic gains, school is nevertheless a hostile institution for them. Focusing on the case of Black girls and recent immigrant girls of color, I identify three specific ways in which school functions as hostile institution for them: (1) gendered racial harassment from teachers, (2) erasure of intellect, and (3) estrangement within their communities. Furthermore, the denigration of immigrant girls becomes the conduit for misogynoir. I find that the gains of some racially marginalized girls in school often justify hostility against all of them. Bringing into conversation a feminist analysis of schooling that rejects girls' educational gains as ubiquitous evidence of a gender revolution with a Black-colonial education framework that emphasizes schooling as a technology of oppression, I explore the current role of school as a hostile institution for Black girls and immigrant girls of color.
- Subjects
WOMEN'S education; BLACK women; WOMEN immigrants
- Publication
Gender & Society, 2022, Vol 36, Issue 1, p88
- ISSN
0891-2432
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/08912432211057916