Nikki Jones

Between Good and Ghetto

African American Girls and Inner-City Violence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 provides a richly descriptive and compassionate account.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 141mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780813546155
• ISBN-10: 081354615X
• Artikelnr.: 26526255

Autorenporträt

Nikki Jones

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 The Social World of Inner City Girls
2 "It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live"
3 "Ain't I A Violent Person?"
4 "Love Make You Fight Crazy"
Conclusion: The Other Side of the Crisis
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index