TY  - BOOK
AU  - Audrey P. Watkins
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1058-1634
TI  - Sisters of Hope, Looking Back, Stepping Forward
T2  - The Educational Experiences of African-American Women
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1106132
N2  - This book documents the critiques and theorizings that working-class African-American women have drawn from their educational experiences. Based on a study of five African-American females enrolled in an employer-sponsored workplace speech and language training program, the book presents lessons learned from participants’ efforts to negotiate effects of race, class, and gender discrimination both in and out of school. Particularly relevant to the field of education, participants provide insight – on the roles of teachers and schools, instruction, expectations, motivation, race and education, educational experiences at work, and relevant education – to inform and help effect change.   Because of its interdisciplinarity, Sisters of Hope, Looking Back, Stepping Forward is an asset for a variety of courses that seek to be inclusive of the educational experiences and theorizings of marginalized groups. Its insights on race, class, gender, marginalization, and inequality are relevant to courses in areas such as African-American studies, women’s studies, ethnic studies, multicultural education, sociolinguistics – black Englishes, history, oral history/autobiography, communication, and religion.
KW  - Bildungsgang, Chancengleichheit, Frau, Schwarze, Urban education, Black female educational experiences, Formal education, Informal education, Black women's educational theorizing, Diskriminierung, USA
LA  - English
ER  -