Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence

摘要: "Nikki Jones's sharp, detailed investigation of the way fighting, on street and in school, shapes lives young African American women combines shrewd analytical insight clear evocative language to give readers an understanding what it costs a 'good girl' stay good, happens those who 'go for bad.'" -Howard S. Becker, author Outsiders Writing Social Scientists "This book adds invaluable information analysis growing debate violence perpetrated by girls, ethnographic method is exactly needed further question whether today's girls-particularly most marginalized due class, race, neighborhood-are more violent." -Joanne Belknap, The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime & Justice With outward gaze focused better future, Between Good Ghetto reflects social world inner-city girls how they manage threats personal violence. Nikki Jones gives richly descriptive compassionate account negotiate schools neighborhoods governed "code street"-the form justice that regulates distressed urban areas. She reveals multiple strategies use navigate interpersonal gender-specific reconcile gendered dilemmas their adolescence. Illuminating struggles survival within this group, encourages others move toward center discussions "the crisis" poor, neighborhoods. assistant professor department sociology at University California, Santa Barbara. A volume Rutgers Series Childhood Studies, edited Myra Bluebond-Langner, Distinguished Professor Anthropology,