Discuss the expectations embedded in the code of the street and how this perpetuates the use of violence against women and girls. What are the different ways that African American girls in the book experienced this gendered violence and how they coped with it?

Assignment Question

In Nikki Jones Book Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence, she argues that young African American women in the inner city must measure up to two competing sets of gender expectations. Define what these competing gender expectations are, how they are raced, classed, and gendered, and the strategies African American girls use to embrace or to avoid violence in their daily lives. In Nikki Jones Book Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence, she articulates that girls are not only perpetrators of violence but are victims of gendered violence as well. Even girls who embrace the “fighter” persona are not immune to domestic violence or rape. Discuss the expectations embedded in the code of the street and how this perpetuates the use of violence against women and girls. What are the different ways that African American girls in the book experienced this gendered violence and how they coped with it?

Your paper must be well organized, clearly written, structurally sound, and include clear and concise paragraphs that develop your major ideas. In your conclusion be sure and synthesize the information that was previously discussed. Always provide specific evidence for your argument and try to avoid grammatical, structural, or organizational mistakes.