Tag: Inner-City Violence

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