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Between Good and
Ghetto
Price: $22.95
Subtitle: African
American Girls and Inner City Violence
Author:
Nikki Jones
Subject: Sociology,
Criminology,
Gender
Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4615-5
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4614-8
Pages:
224 pages
Publication Date: December 2009
Series:
Series in Childhood
Studies
Praise for Between Good and Ghetto
"This book adds invaluable information and analysis to the
gowing debate on the violence perpetrated by girls, and the
ethnographic method is exactly what is needed to further the question
of whether today's girls--particularly those most marginalized due to
class, race and neighborhood--are more violent."—Joanne Belknap, author of The Invisible Woman: Gender,
Crime, & Justice
Description:
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”—the 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.
About the Author:
NIKKI JONES is an assistant professor in the department of
sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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