In this Book
- Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: Series in Childhood Studies
summary
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 feminist criminology, Nikki Jones provides a richly descriptive and compassionate account, revealing multiple strategies used to navigate interpersonal and gender-specific violence and how gendered dilemmas of their adolescence are reconciled.
Table of Contents
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-19
- Conclusion: The Other Side of the Crisis
- pp. 151-162
- References
- pp. 195-202
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813548258
Related ISBN(s)
9780813546148
MARC Record
OCLC
593317251
Pages
228
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No