Between good and ghetto: African American girls and inner-city violence
2010; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 48; Issue: 01 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.48-0582
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)Homelessness and Social Issues
ResumoJones's sharp, detailed investigation of way fighting, on street and in school, shapes lives of young African American women combines shrewd analytical insight and clear evocative language to give readers an understanding of what it costs a 'good girl' to stay good, and what happens to those who 'go for bad.' -Howard S. Becker, author of Outsiders and Writing for Social Scientists This book adds invaluable information and analysis to growing debate on violence perpetrated by girls, and ethnographic method is exactly what is needed to further question of whether today's girls-particularly those most marginalized due to class, race, and neighborhood-are more violent. -Joanne Belknap, author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime & Justice With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects social world of inner-city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Nikki Jones gives readers a richly descriptive and compassionate account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by code of street-the form of street justice that regulates violence in distressed urban areas. She reveals multiple strategies girls use to navigate interpersonal and gender-specific violence and how they reconcile gendered dilemmas of their adolescence. Illuminating struggles for survival within this group, Between Good and Ghetto encourages others to move African American girls toward center of discussions of the crisis in poor, urban neighborhoods. Nikki Jones is an assistant professor in department of sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. A volume in Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies, edited by Myra Bluebond-Langner, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University
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