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Search - Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence

Getting Played African American Girls Urban Inequality and Gendered Violence
Author: Jody Miller

View the Table of Contents — Read the Preface"The result of Miller?s information lode is a…sometimes uplifting book. It is possible for government and private-sector programs to alleviate the violence against females, Miller believes?but not if those in charge lack the will and refuse to allocate the resources." — ?St. Louis Post Dispatch”... more »Miller gives us a detailed examination of the violence experienced by Black inner city girls whose victimization is based on multiple dimensions of their lives: because they are Black, because they live in extremely disadvantaged neighborhoods, and because they are women. Miller’s careful, rich, detailed field work documents and analyzes the complex realities of these young women’s lives that set the context for the struggles they routinely contend with. The voices of these young people have been ignored for too long. Getting Played has given them an opportunity to be heard that is long overdue.”

—Robert Crutchfield, University of Washington “Getting Played shows powerfully how gender, class, and race inequality expose girls in disadvantaged urban communities to violent and sexual victimization, both in neighborhoods and in schools. Miller expertly analyzes how extreme social and economic disadvantage combine with pervasive normative codes to create a context in which girls face high risks of victimization at the hands of boys and men. Getting Played is masterful.”

—Karen Heimer, co-editor of Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending “By giving us a better understanding of how the neighborhoods and the peer culture of poor African American youth increase the risk of ‘gendered victimization,’ Getting Played challenges both academics and policymakers to face the role of structured discrimination in the perpetuation of violence toward women.”

—Candace Kruttschnitt, co-author of Marking Time in the Golden State: Women’s Imprisonment in California ”This is a significant and timely book. Miller has taken on a vitally important, but understudied, topic—violence against young Black girls in economically depressed urban settings.”

—Dana M. Britton, author of At Work in the Iron Cage: The Prison as Gendered Organization “Miller grabs readers? attention with the stark reality of the widespread occurrence of violent victimization among the girls she studies.”

—From the Foreword by Ruth D. Peterson, Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Ohio State University Much has been written about the challenges that face urban African American young men, but less is said about the harsh realities for African American young women in disadvantaged communities. Sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and even gang rape are not uncommon experiences. In Getting Played, sociologist Jody Miller presents a compelling picture of this dire social problem and explores how inextricably, and tragically, linked violence is to their daily lives in poor urban neighborhoods. Drawing from richly textured interviews with adolescent girls and boys, Miller brings a keen eye to the troubling realities of a world infused with danger and gender-based violence. These girls are isolated, ignored, and often victimized by those considered family and friends. Community institutions such as the police and schools that are meant to protect them often turn a blind eye, leaving girls to fend for themselves. Miller draws a vivid picture of the race and gender inequalities that harm these communities—and how these result in deeply and dangerously engrained beliefs about gender that teach youths to see such violence—rather than the result of broader social inequalities—as deserved due to individual girls’ flawed characters, i.e., “she deserved it.” Through Miller’s careful analysis of these engaging, often unsettling stories, Getting Played shows us not only how these young women are victimized, but how, despite vastly inadequate social support and opportunities, they struggle to navigate this dangerous terrain.

ISBN-13: 9780814756980
ISBN-10: 0814756980
Publication Date: 3/1/2008
Pages: 336
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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