Downed By Friendly Fire: Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling
Signithia Fordham
Abstract
Downed by Friendly Fire examines the ubiquity of violence and the need to rehabilitate its prevailing physical classification, especially as it relates to gender. The book seeks to change the meaning of violence by redefining it to include intended, nonphysical harm cloaked in the presumed banality of normality. Specifically, it looks at the social practices that dehumanize or are exploitative—either emotionally or physically—, which compels individuals to endure shame, humiliation, starvation, exclusion, marginalization, health disparities poverty, etc. This is done through the framework of t ... More
Keywords: Violence, Bullying, Normalcy and statusitis, Misrecognition, Race, Gender, Complicity, Intersectionality, Frienemies, Rehabilitation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816689668 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816689668.001.0001 |
