"Those Loud Black Girls": (Black) Women, Silence, and Gender "Passing" in the Academy.

Fordham, Signithia

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Publication Date: 1993

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"Those Loud Black Girls": (Black) Women, Silence, and Gender "Passing" in the Academy.

Fordham, Signithia

Anthropology and Education Quarterly, v24 n1 p3-32 Mar 1993

Explores the impact of gender diversity on school achievement, using data from an ethnographic study of academic success among 33 eleventh-grade students in a Washington (DC) high school. The normalized definition of femaleness juxtaposed with a dominating patriarchy propels African-American females to resist images that assert their nothingness. (SLD)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Ethnography, Females, Femininity, High School Students, High Schools, Middle Class, Personal Narratives, Personality Traits, Racial Identification, Self Concept, Sex Bias, Sex Differences, Sex Role, Urban Schools, Whites

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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