The Multiracial Urban High School Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends

by Rosenbloom, Susan Rakosi

• ISBN13: 9780230622012
• ISBN10: 0230622011
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

From 1996-2000, thirty minority teenagers (African American, Chinese American, Puerto Rican American, and Dominican American) were interviewed every year for four years to investigate how their experiences in high school shaped their social relationships.

Author Biography

Susan Rakosi Rosenbloom is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Drew University in Madison, N.J. She completed two years of public service with AmeriCorps as a doctoral student at New York University (PhD. Sociology). After graduating from the State University of New York at Binghamton, she worked in the New York City and Yonkers, N.Y. public high schools organizing conflict resolution programs. The Multiracial Urban High School: Fearing Peers and Trusting Friends is her first book based on research with Dr. Niobe Way. Her second book, Child Soldiers: From Patriot to Victim (co-author David Rosen) will be published in 2012. Her most recent research explores how the representation of child soldiers in U.S. and Britain shifted from patriotic hero to abused, victim in third-world countries. A New York City transplant, Susan now lives in a log cabin on a lake where she swims, ice skates, and occasionally removes ticks from her children Raphael and Sophia. On her free time she enjoys yoga and becoming temporarily lost in the Ramapo Mountains in Ringwood, N.J.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Rethinking High School as a Relational Journey	p. 1
Immigrant Dream and/or Educational Delusion?	p. 43
"It's a Bad School Because of the Kids"	p. 67
Listening to Friendships: Longitudinal Case Studies of Friendship Patterns-Isidora, Reginald, Mei Ling, and Lena	p. 93
"It's Like I'm in a Stereotype" (Co-authored with Niobe Way)	p. 131
What If You Can't Learn Anywhere? Trapped by School Choice	p. 151
Peer Power Undermined	p. 173
Index	p. 185
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