What is it about?
Bussed students, male and female, were racially stereotyped in their affluent, predominantly White suburban schools. Yet as a group, Black boys were welcomed in suburban social cliques, even as they were constrained to enacting race and gender in narrow ways. In contrast, Black girls were stereotyped as ‘‘ghetto’’ and ‘‘loud’’ and excluded.
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Why is it important?
The paper offers new insights about how gender and race interact within racially integrated educational settings.
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This page is a summary of: Gender, Race, and Justifications for Group Exclusion, Sociology of Education, January 2013, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0038040712472912.
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The Atlantic
Minority young men are considered by their white peers to be cool and tough; minority young women, on the other hand, are stereotyped as "ghetto" and "loud."
Huffington Post
Black Boys Considered 'Cool' And 'Tough' While Black Girls Stereotyped As 'Ghetto' And 'Loud' In Suburban Schools
Gender & Society blog
"For black boys, cool comes with costs"
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