Burning Dislike : Ethnic Violence in High Schools.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (307 pages)
Cover -- Burning Dislike -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Toward an Understanding of Ethnic Violence in Schools -- PART ONE. TINDER -- 2. Kindling: The History of Ethnic Conflict -- 3. Climate and Weather: Social Conditions and Structural Change -- PART TWO. FLAMES -- 4. Sparks and Smoke: The Start of Ethnic Violence -- 5. Fire: The Maturation of Ethnic Violence -- PART THREE. EMBERS -- 6. Dousing and Suffocating the Flames: Violence Suppression -- 7. Monitoring the Embers: Keeping the Peace -- Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Violence in schools has more potential to involve large numbers of students, produce injuries, disrupt instructional time, and cause property damage than any other form of youth violence. Burning Dislike is the first book to use direct observation of everyday violent interactions to explore ethnic conflict in high schools. Why do young people engage in violence while in school? What is it about ethnicity that leads to fights? Through the use of two direct observational studies conducted twenty-six years apart, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski documents the process of ethnic school violence from start to finish. In addition to shedding light on what causes this type of violence and how it progresses over time, Burning Dislike provides strategic policy suggestions to address this troubling phenomenon.
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School violence-United States. Ethnic conflict-United States. High schools-Social aspects-United States.