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Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Educationreviewed by Robin L. Hughes - 2004 Title: Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education Author(s): Nancy Lopez Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0415930758, Pages: 224, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com In Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in
Urban Education, Nancy Lopez explores the race gender disparity
that occurs among
Caribbean
youth. She intricately makes her case with the specific purpose of
unpeeling the many layers that have traditionally obscured the
interplay between race and gender within urban contexts.
Lopez’s study grew out of a compelling need to understand the
dynamics that contribute to race and gender disparities in urban
education.
Lopez undertakes a tremendous effort to unravel social
mechanisms that may traditionally yet capriciously create
disparities among racially stigmatized and new second generation
students. Her study seeks to understand how is it that men and
women who belong to the same racial and ethnic group, attend
similar schools, grow up in the identical social and economic
circumstance, and live in the same neighborhoods have significantly
different educational outcomes.
Lopez is a second generation Dominican who holds not only a
visceral interest, but also notes the (global) importance of
understanding the dynamics that contribute... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Robin Hughes
Oklahoma State University E-mail Author Robin Hughes is Assistant Professor of Education, School of Educational Studies, at Oklahoma State University.
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