Between Good and Ghetto : : African American Girls and Inner-City Violence / / Nikki Jones.
With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Drawing on personal encounters, traditions of urban ethnography, Black feminist thought, gender studies, and femin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Social World of Inner-City Girls
- 2. "It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live": When Good Girls Fight
- 3. "Ain't I a Violent Person?": Understanding Girl Fighters
- 4. "Love Make You Fight Crazy": Gendered Violence and Inner-City Girls
- Conclusion: The Other Side of the Crisis
- Appendix: A Reflection on Field Research and the Politics of Representation
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author