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Between Good and Ghetto : African American Girls and Inner-City Violence / Nikki Jones.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rutgers Series in Childhood StudiesPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813546148
  • 9780813548258
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.23089/96073 22
LOC classification:
  • HN90.V5 J66 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 feminist criminology, Nikki Jones gives readers a richly descriptive and compassionate account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called "code of the street"ùthe form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas. She reveals the multiple strategies they use to navigate interpersonal and gender-specific violence and how they reconcile the gendered dilemmas of their adolescence. Illuminating struggles for survival within this group, Between Good and Ghetto encourages others to move African American girls toward the center of discussions of "the crisis" in poor, urban neighborhoods.
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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

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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 feminist criminology, Nikki Jones gives readers a richly descriptive and compassionate account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called "code of the street"ùthe form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas. She reveals the multiple strategies they use to navigate interpersonal and gender-specific violence and how they reconcile the gendered dilemmas of their adolescence. Illuminating struggles for survival within this group, Between Good and Ghetto encourages others to move African American girls toward the center of discussions of "the crisis" in poor, urban neighborhoods.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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