Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner City Violence (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)

by Nikki Jones (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $25.32

  Shows the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. This title presents an 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.