TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Christina's Worlds: Negotiating Childhood in the City
JO  - Educational studies (Mahwah, NJ)
A1  - Zacher, Jessica C.
SP  - 262
EP  - 279
VL  - 45
IS  - 3
N2  - This article focuses on the ways that one individual child, Christina, experienced urban life in and outside of a diversely populated elementary school with a multicultural curriculum. Labeled by the school and her parents as white, Christina identified as Latina, and used specific spaces in the city to support this claim. Drawing on data from a year-long ethnographic study, I show how Christina navigated her life in the city and explore the ways that she consciously represented herself over time, in multiple social spaces, as non-white. Three particular spaces are explored here: the city bus ride to school, Christina's neighborhood, and classroom discussions. Christina used a variety of resources to negotiate each space, in effect drawing a map of her racial identity as she lived in the city. Her case offers ideas about how such a curriculum might influence the senses of self of children in diversely populated classrooms.<p />
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SN  - 0013-1946
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131940902910966
ID  - ref1
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