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OverviewWith 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nikki Jones , Myra Bluebond-LangnerPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.405kg ISBN: 9780813546148ISBN 10: 0813546141 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 30 October 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAdds invaluable information and analysis to the growing debate on the violence perpetrated by girls... 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 Adds invaluable information and analysis to the growing debate on the violence perpetrated by girls... 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 Author InformationNIKKI JONES is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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