The Paradoxes of Personhood: Banal Multiculturalism and Racial–Ethnic Identification among Latina and Armenian Girls at a Los Angeles High School
The Paradoxes of Personhood: Banal Multiculturalism and Racial–Ethnic Identification among Latina and Armenian Girls at a Los Angeles High School
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人格的悖论：洛杉矶高中拉丁裔和亚美尼亚女孩的平庸多元文化主义和种族民族认同
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10.1068/a40141
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2008
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Mary E. Thomas
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Mary E. Thomas
2005年春天，从圣费尔南多山谷到洛杉矶南部，加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的高中爆发了许多出于种族动机的大规模打架事件。大多数战斗发生在认为自己是少数族裔的年轻人之间，如拉丁裔、非裔美国人和亚美尼亚人。就在一次涉及数百名学生的此类打斗之后，我对十几岁的女孩进行了一系列采访，询问她们对山谷学校拉美裔和亚美尼亚人之间爆发的种族暴力有何看法。在这项研究中，女孩们向我详细描述了她们的后种族态度(典型的是这样的理想：种族无关紧要，我们都是一样的)，但她们的叙述证明了极端的种族-民族隔离和她们自己的种族主义情绪。在这篇文章中，我探讨了这一矛盾，并关注女孩如何清晰地表达多元文化和人文主义理想，将自己定位为反种族主义者。然而，同时，我认为，女孩们对他人的种族主义怨恨说明了她们在不同方面的深刻和受伤的投资。女孩们的叙述和身份也表明了为什么在这所城市高中培养尊重多样性的多元文化努力失败了。
In the spring of 2005, numerous racially motivated, large-scale fights broke out in Los Angeles, California, high schools, from the San Fernando Valley to south Los Angeles. Most of the fighting occurred between youth who identify as ethnic–racial minorities, like Latinos, African-Americans, and Armenians. Just after one such fight involving several hundred students, which quickly became known as a ‘race riot’ at the school, I conducted a series of interviews with teenage girls asking them what they thought of this outburst of ethnic–racial violence, in their valley school's case between Latinos and Armenians. In the research, girls detailed to me their postracial attitudes (typified by such ideals as ‘race doesn't matter, we are all the same’), but their narratives evidenced extreme racial–ethnic segregation and their own racist sentiments. In this paper, I explore this contradiction and focus on how girls articulate multicultural and humanist ideals to situate themselves as antiracists. However, concurrently, I argue that the girls' racialized resentments of others illustrate their profound and wounded investments in difference. The girls' narratives and identities also indicate why multicultural attempts to foster respect of diversity in this urban high school have failed.