2018
DOI: 10.1177/0011128718811002
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Emotional Girls and Rational Boys: The Gendering of Violence Among Urban, African American Youth

Abstract: Much scholarship has given primacy to neighborhood context and its effect on youth violence within disadvantaged communities. The structural features of these environments, including various forms of disadvantage such as extreme poverty, unemployment and family disruption, have resulted in cultural adaptations that embrace the use of violence and the construction of violent identities as a means of survival and protection especially among youth. We adhere to and contribute to this perspective by recognizing th… Show more

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