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RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN BOYS' EDUCATION: REPOSITIONING INTERSECTIONALITY THEORY.

Authors :
NELSON, JOSEPH DERRICK
STAHL, GARTH
WALLACE, DERRON
Source :
Culture, Society & Masculinities; Fall2015, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p171-187, 17p
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

Boys' identities are distinctly gendered, racialized, and classed across disparate social and cultural contexts. Related intersectional identity processes are associated with boys' academic success. While intersectionality has been utilized throughout boys' education scholarship, a limited, "light touch" approach is often enacted. As a critical logic of interpretation, intersectionality theory accounts for race, class, and gender within equity-based empirical studies. The authors contend insufficient engagement with intersectionality may lead educational research on boys' social and learner identities to become static. Examining boys' identities through intersectional approaches reveals more complex insights particularly related to their school engagement. Critical of the recent "boy crisis" literature, this article strives to compel theorists of boys' education to more fully leverage the history, constructs, and epistemologies of intersectionality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
19415583
Volume :
7
Issue :
2
Database :
Supplemental Index
Journal :
Culture, Society & Masculinities
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
112325798
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3149/CSM.0702.171