Women without class : girls, race, and identity

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Label

Women without class : girls, race, and identity

Title remainder

girls, race, and identity

Statement of responsibility

Julie Bettie ; with a new introduction

Creator

• Bettie, Julie, 1965-

Author

• Bettie, Julie, 1965-

Subject

• Mexican American teenage girls -- California | Central Valley (Valley) -- Social conditions
• Mexican American teenage girls -- Race identity -- California | Central Valley (Valley)
• Social classes
• California -- Central Valley (Valley)
• Social classes -- California | Central Valley (Valley)
• Teenage girls, White -- California | Central Valley (Valley) -- Social conditions
• Teenage girls, White -- Race identity -- California | Central Valley (Valley)
• Social classes
• California -- Central Valley (Valley)

Language

eng

Summary

In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, the author turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color, ethnicity, gender, adn sexuality. Documenting the categories of subculture and style that high school students use to explain class and racial/ethnic differences among themselves, she depicts the complex identity performances of contemporary girls

Cataloging source

ZEM

Dewey number

305.23509794

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

HQ798 .B425 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography