The social world of inner-city girls -- "It's not where you live, it's how you live" : when good girls fight -- "Ain't I a violent person?" : understanding girl fighters -- "Love make you fight crazy" : gendered violence and inner-city girls
Summary
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, revealing multiple strategies used to navigate interpersonal and gender-specific violence and how gendered dilemmas of their adolescence are reconciled
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index
