Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence

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203 Index abortion, 122, 123, 129–130, 136, 143–144, 146 accountability: and “code of the street,” 5, 7, 153; and gender, 7–8 All Our Kin (Stack), 189n7 American Apartheid (Massey and Denton), 183n4 American Civil Liberties Union, 183n2 analytic induction method, 186n20 Anderson, Elijah, 118, 126; campaigns for respect, 12; “code of the street,” 5; code-switching, 11, 155, 165; decency, 9–10, 50; “the dream” and “the game,” 118, 126; and Du Bois, 176; ethnographies, 165, 178; “go for bad,” 78; inner-city grandmothers, 33, 192n2; manhood and the code of the street, 5–6, 184nn8,9; observant participant, 16, 167; perceptions of police, 4, relationship between neighborhood circumstances and the use of violence, 184; social organization of the corner, 23, 24; staging areas, 54; “street” and “decent” orientations, 9–10; structural changes in the inner city, 3; urban ethnography, 194n3; urban sociology, 180 anger: and aggression and violence, 82; of girl fighters, 84; Lorde on, 190n8 arrest, mandatory, for domestic violence, 118 associates: versus friends, 54–55; and loyalty links, 55 authenticity tests, for field research, 169–173 baby’s father relationship: expectations of mothers, 118, 126; having a baby with someone, 126–130, 143–146; and making a family, 61 Banks, Ingrid, 48, 188n2 Becker, Howard, 165, 186n20 behavior modification, 168 Bettie, Julie, 188n6 Bierman, Karen L., 189n8 birth control: Depo-Provera and Black women, 191n11; and negotiations with sexual partners, 137–138 Index 204 “Black lady”: and Black respectability, 8–9; expectations of, 8; image of, 8, 185n14 Black Metropolis (Drake and Cayton), 176, 178, 193–194n2 Black Noise (Rose), 49, 189n3 Black Sexual Politics (Collins), 175, 179, 184n9 body shape, and standards of beauty, 47 boys and men, inner-city: baby’s father relationship, 61, 126–130, 143–146; girls’ fight over, 97–98; manhood, proving, 5–6, 184–185n9; protective attitude toward neighborhood girls, 24–25; in street corner drug trade, 24, 25–26, 92–93. See also dating violence; domestic violence; sexual assault Brown, Lyn Mikel, 188n6, 189–190n7 Cayton, Horace R., 165, 176, 178, 193–194n2 Chesney-Lind, Meda, 189n8, 193n7 child care, 192n2 code of the street, 5–7, 153–154, 155, 176. See also Anderson, Elijah Code of the Street (Anderson), 176 code switching, and gender, 11–12, 155 Cole, Johnetta Betsch, 8, 49 Collins, Patricia Hill: Black feminine respectability, 8, 77; Black feminist thought, 180; Black grandmothers, 33; Black woman–centered networks, 192n2; hip-hop and femininity, 49, 188nn3,4; humanity of Black people, 179; image of “Black lady,” 8; living with violence, 190n8; manhood, 6, 184n9; othermothers, 187n1; perceptions of beauty, 48; physical dominance, 6; racial segregation, 175; socializing Black girls for survival, 187n3; strength of Black women, 153; usage of terms “Black” and “African American,” 184n6 colorism, 161; definition of, 193n9 Compelled to Crime (Richie), 192n4 “corner”: as social hub, 23–24; as staging area, 24 crime, inner-city, 4 Criminalizing the Classroom, 183n2 criminal justice system: domestic violence in, 133, 139–142, 148; and drug trade, 159–160. See also police criminology literature, and race, 157–158 Daiute, Collette, 184n7 Dance, Lory J., 9 dating violence: girls’ acceptance of, 109–110; girls’ challenge to, 110–114; and law enforcement, 117–118; and protection orders, 116, 118; rules governing, 107–109. See also domestic violence; sexual assault De Coster, S., 193n7 DeKeseredy, Walter S., 188n7, 191n4 Denton, Nancy, 3, 4, 183n4 Depo-Provera, 137–138, 191n11 deviance/pathology model of black family life, 157–158, 181 direct observation, 15 disrespect, as motive in girls’ fights, 14–15, 22 domestic violence: by baby’s father, 122–126, 133–134, 136, 155–156; in criminal justice system, 133, 139–143, 148; in housing projects, 190–191n4; negotiating threat of, 130–131, 135–137, 147–150; and police, 117–118, 124, 139; power differential in sexual interaction, 137–138. See also dating violence Drake, St. Clair, 165, 176, 178, 193–194n2 drug dealer: baby’s father, 127–128; dating, 67–68 drug house, 91–92 drug laws, 159 drugs, war on, 159–160 drug trade, 20, 23; alternatives to employment in, 159; and criminal justice system, 159–160; girls in, 26, 187n2, 191n7; and grandmothers’ safety warnings, 34; and police surveillance and enforcement, 93–94; street corner as hub for, 24, 25–26, 92; and violence, 25, 67–68, 92–93 drug use, in school setting, 22 Du Bois, W.E.B., 165, 176 Duneier, Mitchell...