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America the Beautiful and Violent : Black Youth and Neighborhood Trauma in Chicago / Dexter Voisin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource : 16 color imagesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231184403
  • 9780231545471
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.6083509773/11 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ799.2.V56 V65 2019
  • HQ799.2.V56
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. The Beginning -- 2. The Tale of Two Americas -- 3. Not All Violence Is the Same: Race- and Place-Based Violence -- 4. The Road to Concentrated Poverty and Neighborhood Violence -- 5. The Scars of Violence -- 6. When Violence and Sex Are Entangled -- 7. Living and Parenting in the Presence of Everyday Dangers -- 8. Joining the Broken Pieces: Practice and Policy Solutions and Systems Integration -- 9. Making a Difference: Rebuilding the Village -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Widespread media narratives portray an epidemic of neighborhood violence in urban areas-often ignoring the structural explanations advanced by community organizers fighting violence and activists such as those in the Movement for Black Lives. In this book, Dexter R. Voisin provides a compelling and social justice-oriented analysis of current trends in neighborhood violence in light of the historical and structural factors that have reproduced entrenched patterns of racial and economic inequality.America the Beautiful and Violent is built around the powerful voices and insights of black youth in Chicago and their parents and communities. Voisin interweaves their narratives with data, research findings, and historical accounts that provide context for their experiences. He highlights the broad historical, political, economic, and racial factors that shape the construction, concentration, and narratives of violence in black neighborhoods. Voisin explores these forces and the violence they produce; the behavioral health consequences of repeated exposures to neighborhood violence; and the ways youth, families, and communities cope with such traumas. America the Beautiful and Violent offers a set of practice and policy recommendations to address the patchwork inequality that leads to concentrated violence and to support children and adolescents struggling with the precarious conditions and threat of violence in their daily lives.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. The Beginning -- 2. The Tale of Two Americas -- 3. Not All Violence Is the Same: Race- and Place-Based Violence -- 4. The Road to Concentrated Poverty and Neighborhood Violence -- 5. The Scars of Violence -- 6. When Violence and Sex Are Entangled -- 7. Living and Parenting in the Presence of Everyday Dangers -- 8. Joining the Broken Pieces: Practice and Policy Solutions and Systems Integration -- 9. Making a Difference: Rebuilding the Village -- Notes -- Index

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Widespread media narratives portray an epidemic of neighborhood violence in urban areas-often ignoring the structural explanations advanced by community organizers fighting violence and activists such as those in the Movement for Black Lives. In this book, Dexter R. Voisin provides a compelling and social justice-oriented analysis of current trends in neighborhood violence in light of the historical and structural factors that have reproduced entrenched patterns of racial and economic inequality.America the Beautiful and Violent is built around the powerful voices and insights of black youth in Chicago and their parents and communities. Voisin interweaves their narratives with data, research findings, and historical accounts that provide context for their experiences. He highlights the broad historical, political, economic, and racial factors that shape the construction, concentration, and narratives of violence in black neighborhoods. Voisin explores these forces and the violence they produce; the behavioral health consequences of repeated exposures to neighborhood violence; and the ways youth, families, and communities cope with such traumas. America the Beautiful and Violent offers a set of practice and policy recommendations to address the patchwork inequality that leads to concentrated violence and to support children and adolescents struggling with the precarious conditions and threat of violence in their daily lives.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)