Against the Wall : : Poor, Young, Black, and Male / / ed. by Elijah Anderson.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleTypically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men are trapped in a horrific cycle that includes active discrimination, unemployment, violence, crime, prison, and early death. This toxic mixture has given ri...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The City in the Twenty-First Century
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 14 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword: Strong Men Keep A - Comin On
- Part I. Facing the Situation of Young Black Men in Inner Cities
- Chapter 1. Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male
- Chapter 2. David's Story: From Promise to Despair
- Chapter 3. Young, Black, and Male: The Life History of an American Drug Dealer Facing Death Row
- Part II. Structural Analyses of Joblessness Among Black Youth
- Chapter 4. The Economic Plight of Inner - City Black Males
- Chapter 5. Blacklisted: Hiring Discrimination in an Era of Mass Incarceration
- Chapter 6. The Effects of Immigration on the Economic Position of Young Black Males
- Chapter 7. Immigration and Equal Opportunity
- Part III. Engaging Urban Youth in Social Institutions
- Chapter 8. Youth Entrepreneurship Training in the Inner City: Overcoming Disadvantage, Engaging Youth in School
- Chapter 9. Black Male Students and Reflections on Learning and Teaching
- Chapter 10. Fighting like a Ballplayer: Basketball as a Strategy Against Social Disorganization
- Chapter 11. "Tell us how it feels to be a problem": Hip Hop Longings and Poor Young Black Men
- Part IV. Social Policy Matters
- Chapter 12. Social Issues Lurking in the Over-Representation of Young African American Men in the Expanding DNA Databases
- Chapter 13. "You can take me outta the 'hood, but you can't take the 'hood outta me": Youth Incarceration and Reentry
- Chapter 14. Suicide Patterns Among Black Males
- Chapter 15. Why Are Handguns So Accessible on Urban Streets?
- Chapter 16. What Do We Do Now? Toward a Brighter Future for African American Men
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
- Acknowledgments