Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education

PREFACE -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER Unequal Schooling: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education -- CHAPTER 2 From “Mamasita” to “Hoodlum”: Stigma as Lived Experience -- CHAPTER 3 “Urban High Schools”: The Reality of Unequal Schooling -- CHAPTER 4 “Problem” Boys -- CHAPTER 5 Rewarding Femininity -- CHAPTER 6 Homegrown: How the Family Does Gender -- CHAPTER 7 After Graduation: Race and Gender in the Workplace -- CHAPTER 8 Education as a Way Out: The Future of Latino and Black Education -- APPENDIX A Description of Second-Generation Caribbean Women Interviewed, Ages 18–30 -- APPENDIX B Description of Second-Generation Caribbean Men Interviewed, Ages 18–30 -- APPENDIX C Summary of Focus Group Participants -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Biography

Nancy Lopez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico