
Published online:
18 May 2017
Published in print:
15 August 2016
Online ISBN:
9781452955216
Print ISBN:
9780816689668
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Revisiting What Is Never Dead: The Past Revisiting What Is Never Dead: The Past
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Class-Based Muscle and Frenemies Class-Based Muscle and Frenemies
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Blacked Out in the Middle Class Blacked Out in the Middle Class
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“The Fight”—Keyshia’s Version “The Fight”—Keyshia’s Version
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Getting the Hell out of Dodge—Right Now Getting the Hell out of Dodge—Right Now
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The Anthropological Postscript The Anthropological Postscript
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Chapter
5 Keyshia: The Black Girl’s Two-Step
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Pages
165–194
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Published:August 2016
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Fordham, Signithia, 'Keyshia: The Black Girl’s Two-Step', Downed By Friendly Fire: Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling (Minneapolis, MN , 2016; online edn, Minnesota Scholarship Online, 18 May 2017), https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816689668.003.0006, accessed 8 May 2025.
Abstract
The fifth chapter presents the narrative of a middle class Black girl, Keyshia, who is the former BFF of the Black girl, Nadine, whose narrative is presented in chapter three. Unlike her former friend whose Black identity is never challenged, this student sees herself as not quite “Black enough.” In response to this perception, she appears to embrace her lower class Black friend by stealing her boyfriend and opting to disengage from her usual stellar academic performance, a change so profound that everyone notices, but no one intervenes or offers support.
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