Teaching Black Girls ─ Resiliency in Urban Classrooms

Writing for graduate students, pre-service teachers, and school practitioners, Evans-Winter (education, Illinois State U.) examines school resilience in the lives of African American female students and emphasizes how these girls succeed as they struggle with adversity. As she relates the stories of students from the Midwest, she discusses factors that contribute to their staying in school, coping strategies they use, how they experience schooling, support systems available to them and how they promote educational resiliency, and how educators can apply these findings. This edition has more recent statistics and data on educational trends, as well as a new afterword on new directions for research. There is no index. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Venus E. Evans-Winters is Assistant Professor of Education at Illinois State University in the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations. She holds a Doctorate degree in educational policy studies and a Masters degree in school social work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are school resilience, urban education, critical race theory, critical pedagogy, and feminism(s).