Table of Contents

PREFACE — Acknowledgments — CHAPTER Unequal Schooling: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education — CHAPTER 2 From “Mamasita” to “Hoodlum”: Stigma as Lived Experience — CHAPTER 3 “Urban High Schools”: The Reality of Unequal Schooling — CHAPTER 4 “Problem” Boys — CHAPTER 5 Rewarding Femininity — CHAPTER 6 Homegrown: How the Family Does Gender — CHAPTER 7 After Graduation: Race and Gender in the Workplace — CHAPTER 8 Education as a Way Out: The Future of Latino and Black Education — APPENDIX A Description of Second-Generation Caribbean Women Interviewed, Ages 18–30 — APPENDIX B Description of Second-Generation Caribbean Men Interviewed, Ages 18–30 — APPENDIX C Summary of Focus Group Participants — Notes — Bibliography — Index