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Author Evans-Winters, Venus E.

Title Teaching Black girls : resiliency in urban classrooms / Venus E. Evans-Winters.

Publication Info. New York : P. Lang, [2005]
©2005

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  371.829 E92T    Check Shelf
Description 185 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Counterpoints, 1058-1634 ; v. 279
Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 279.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ([177]-185) and index.
Contents Introduction: Where I'm comin' from -- (En)gendering resiliency in urban education -- The construction of social inequality in a Midwestern city -- introducing the co-narrators -- Resiliency in urban classrooms -- Critical urban pedagogy.
Summary Evans-Winters (education and sociology, Illinois Wesleyan U.) explores the questions of how some Black urban girls succeed versus why some are resilient in the face of adversity. She finds the attitudes about education of adults in the lives of Black young women, including those in their families, schools, churches and communities are essential, and that their expectations for success, whether through practical help or at the more theoretical level of co-narration, should become a critical component of urban education. Evans-Winters's three-year ethnography combines theory, practice, and research to provide support for educators of students living in a world where privilege is afforded primarily to those who are white, wealthy, and male.
Subject African American girls -- Education.
Urban youth -- United States -- Social conditions.
Resilience (Personality trait) -- United States.
Critical pedagogy -- United States.
ISBN 0820471038
9780820471037
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